Re: perl dependancy problem

1999-10-06 Thread Raul Miller
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 10:27:00PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > What am I supposed to do? I could make debconf depend on perl-5.005, but it > really works with any version of perl 5. Also, if only perl-5.004-base, > perl-5.005, and perl-5.005-base were installed, and the alternatives pointed > /usr/bi

Re: perl dependancy problem

1999-10-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 10:27:00PM -0700, Joey Hess écrivait: > What am I supposed to do? I could make debconf depend on perl-5.005, but it > really works with any version of perl 5. Also, if only perl-5.004-base, > perl-5.005, and perl-5.005-base were installed, and the alternatives pointed > /usr

Re: perl dependancy problem

1999-10-06 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 11:28:34PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > > Yick. Perhaps the alternative priorities could be arranged differently? > That doesn't address the real problem, which is that one version of perl may > be installed and satisfy the dependancy, while the alternatives system makes > anot

Re: perl dependancy problem

1999-10-06 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Towns wrote: > Huh? perl-5.005 is priority: important, and it doesn't seem to conflict > with anything else. How come it didn't get installed? I dunno. I installed the base system from cd, went into dselect, selected nothing that wasn't automatically selected, and installed, then went on t

Re: perl dependancy problem

1999-10-06 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 10:27:00PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > I have a package (debconf) that uses lib.pm. This is in perl-5.00[54]. It > depends on perl5. I just installed a fresh unstable system, using the > defaults. perl-5.004-base and perl-5.004 were installed, as was > perl-5.005-base. perl-5.

perl dependancy problem

1999-10-06 Thread Joey Hess
I have a package (debconf) that uses lib.pm. This is in perl-5.00[54]. It depends on perl5. I just installed a fresh unstable system, using the defaults. perl-5.004-base and perl-5.004 were installed, as was perl-5.005-base. perl-5.005 itself was not installed. perl -v says perl 5.005 is being used