Re: Perl breakage

[Alex Romosan <romosan@adonis.lbl.gov>]

Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:

> Alex Romosan wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> So dpkg 1.7.0 has broken update-alternatives?
> 

looks like it.

--alex--

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