Re: Perl breakage
On Nov 06, Alex Romosan wrote:
> Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
>
> > David Starner wrote:
> > > Did the evils of update-alternatives having /usr/bin/perl as
> > > an interpreter and taking care of /usr/bin/perl not occur to
> > > anyone? I'm not sure if all the perl related breakage of this
> > > upgrade can be related to the loss of /usr/bin/perl, but it's
> > > a start. I also removed perl-5.005-suid at the same time, which
> > > may have helped the lossage along.
> >
> > What breakage are you talking about? Perhaps a proper bug report or a
> > proper problem report with acvtual usable information is in order?
> >
>
> update-alternatives doesn't work any more (this is dpkg 1.7.0).
> running by hand:
>
> update=`which update-alternatives`
> perl-5.6 ${update} --install /usr/bin/perl perl /usr/bin/perl-5.6 5006
>
> has no effect (so /usr/bin/perl vanishes).
Solution to this breakage (yes, it bit me too):
ln -s /etc/alternatives/perl /usr/bin
update-alternatives --auto perl
I updated dpkg first, before installing perl, so it is just not a
simultaneous upgrade problem.
Chris
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