On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 05:12:02PM -0800, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
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> Joey Hess, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
> >Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
> >> Potato won't be released with the modules broken. The dependencies that
> >> I mentioned will also enable this breakage not to happen again.
> >
> >But what about partial upgrades from potato?
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> I don't see that there is much we can do here. We don't want to go to
> versioned /usr/lib/perl directories. Once we have the versions on the
> modules we'll be fine though.
>
> I'd welcome suggestions...
I've gone over this in the past (I thought)..
*cuts and pastes from IRC with a bit of editing*
New package set, perl5.005, Provides: perl, Conflicts: perl (<< 5.
004.04-7) (or some such), uses versioned directorys, provides binary
perl5.005, uses alternatives for who gets the 'perl' binary.
New package set, perl5.004, same basic setup as current, minor changes
to coexist with new system (binary is perl5.004 with alternatives).
New upgrade dummy package (ala xbase) set, perl, depends perl5.004.
Upgrade-able from slink/hamm/... in pieces cleanly!
Able to coexist with perl5.006 when its released, etc..
A little extra work now, plenty of examples:
<doogie> Mercury: tell him to look at xbase, and/or
netscape-[sd]motif-<ver>
Problem solved as far as I can see, any problems to point out?
Zephaniah E. Hull.
(Resisting the urge to search for a lart.)
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> Darren
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