Re: Perl 5.005 package
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Zephaniah E. Hull, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
>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.
Yes, we've discussed this before. I even mentioned in my e-mail earlier
today why this is a problem. Since dpkg has problems with both
versioned provides and pre-depends with provides, we can't use provides
Perl. This problem goes away if dpkg gets fixed. I'm not basing my
hopes on this though.
As I said in my message earlier:
>Yes, it will breaks lots of things. Anything that has any XS components
>needs to be recompiled. They should depend on the package perl5.005.
>This will actually be a virtual package so that versioned dependencies
>will still work with (perl >= 5.005.04). This dependency will still
>work when perl5.006 comes out. This was discussed I think back in
>December but the refresh is good.
But the problem here is that when we do an install, there will be files
in /usr/lib/perl5/* and /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004/*. When we
install the new Perl, it won't look there. We install both a 5.004 and
a 5.005, the new perl won't look in the right place.
Darren
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