Re: Perl upgrade dilemma.

2009-03-08 Thread David L. Anselmi
David L. Anselmi wrote: I'm getting set to attempt recovery by using the Debian Live rescue CD. I'll use its tools to finish installing packages (dpkg --root or Dir::RootDir for aptitude). So dpkg and aptitude don't work so well from a rescue disk for this. They chroot before running the post-

Re: Perl upgrade dilemma.

2009-03-08 Thread David L. Anselmi
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 01:21:07AM -0700, David L. Anselmi wrote: Here is the output from aptitude around the first failure: Preparing to replace perl 5.10.0-18 (using .../perl_5.10.0-19_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement perl ... Preparing to replace perl-base 5.10.0-18

Re: Perl upgrade dilemma.

2009-03-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 01:21:07AM -0700, David L. Anselmi wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade a testing machine but the upgrade failed around > perl-base. Now any dpkg commands I try seem to fail because > /usr/bin/perl segfaults. > > How can I fix perl if I can't use dpkg? > > Here is the output

Re: Perl upgrade risks

2005-07-01 Thread Antonio Lobato
Thank you for help.. Ill consider all it. But, cause this perl big trouble and some anothers circunstances, maybe I can upgrade to sarge at once. I know it will give much work, but it economizes more future work. Thank you! Tom Lobato -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Perl upgrade risks

2005-06-29 Thread Almut Behrens
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 05:57:25PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Almut Behrens wrote: > > (2) Install the new perl 5.8.7 in /usr/local and leave 5.6.1 as it is. > > This is probably the safest bet. In your software that needs >5.8.0, > > make sure you're calling the new version > > This doesn't

Re: Perl upgrade risks

2005-06-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Almut Behrens wrote: > (2) Install the new perl 5.8.7 in /usr/local and leave 5.6.1 as it is. > This is probably the safest bet. In your software that needs >5.8.0, > make sure you're calling the new version This doesn't work to well with packages since the packages in question could contain

Re: Perl upgrade risks

2005-06-29 Thread Almut Behrens
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 05:45:56PM -0300, Antonio Lobato wrote: > > I have a Debian Woody server running a lot of services such as > cyrus/postfix, apache, mysql-server, jabberd2, and more... Such as a > good woody system, my Perl is 5.6.1, and there are tons of scripts > that I made and

Re: Perl upgrade

2001-06-29 Thread Vineet Kumar
In general, installing binary packages from different distributions is a Bad Idea, as it seems you learned through your sendmail experience. One method of getting woody versions of packages on your potato system is to include relevant deb-src lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list and download woody s