perl-base and package scripts using Perl
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I'm finishing up the Perl packages and I've run into a bit of a
problem. All the binaries and scripts (with their manpages) are
versioned and use update-alternatives to put themselves into their
normal names.
Unfortunately, we can't really do this with /usr/bin/perl. We actually
go through special tricks to make sure that the distributed Perl doesn't
overwrite the installed Perl until the appropriate time.
Well, if we have /usr/bin/perl-5.004 and /usr/bin/perl-5.005, one of
them must be /usr/bin/perl at all times up until the configure stage.
If we update both of these at the same time, the alternatives will be
removed and then we don't have a proper Perl from the time
perl-base.prerm upgrade until perl-base.postinst configure is called.
I've got a few ideas but I've got problems with all of them.
Darren
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