Re: possible problem with new perl, libc6 on Sep 23rd
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Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
>More specifically it is dpkg doing the breaking, but it's perl's fault on
>how it is setting everything up.
>
>You will note that these two binaries are in the perl package itself
>
>[collinbm@virtue(11:07am)-~]%l tmp/usr/bin/
>total 1052
>-rwxr-xr-x 2 collinbm collinbm 534844 Sep 22 03:32 perl-5.005.dist*
>-rwxr-xr-x 2 collinbm collinbm 534844 Sep 22 03:32 perl5.00503*
>
>However after configuration, perl-5.005.dist is hardlinked to
>perl-5.005, and then subsequently removed. So in actuallity we have a
>binary (/usr/bin/perl-5.005) that is not under control of the package
>system directly (bad idea IMO). Note also that this means that perl-5.005
>is a hardlink to perl5.00503 (which is under package control).
>
>Why does perl need to do all this hardlink magic and also leave us with a
>binary that dpkg knows nothing about?!
I inherited this when I inherited the package in November of 1995. It
was setup this way so that after the removal of the previous Perl
package and before the installation of a new Perl package, there was
still a Perl available. Since we always needed a Perl, we wanted to
avoid that small window.
I notice that bash doesn't do any shenanigans like this. Is this a
relic of bygone days and I don't need to do this funky stuff anymore?
That would make things much easier for me.
Darren
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