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Re: ENOENT (was Re: [PATCH] added --force-* options for conffile handling)



Package: perl-5.005-base

Excellent idea, lets file a bugreport.

To the perl maintainer: this is needed to add proper HURD support to
dpkg, since right now there is no way to get ENOENT in perl.

Wichert.

Previously Bart Schuller wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 03:19:18AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > Previously Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > > #31620:
> > >   * scripts/dpkg-divert and update-alternatives: Don't hardcode ENOENT!
> > 
> > Where do you propose we get ENOENT for? POSIX might not be available
> > and we have to get it somewhere..
> 
> We could perhaps include $CPAN/modules/by-module/Errno/ in perl-base or
> whatever it's called nowadays.
> 
> >From the README:
> 
>     This distribution generates a Errno package which will define and
>     optionally export all E* constants defined in your system <errno.h>
>     file.
> 
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