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Re: Perl breakage



Alex Romosan wrote:
> > >     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.

That's not what I'm seeing though:

root@kite:/usr/bin>mv perl a
root@kite:/usr/bin>perl-5.6 $update --install /usr/bin/perl perl /usr/bin/perl-5.6 5006
root@kite:/usr/bin>ls -l
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           22 Nov  6 15:38 perl -> /etc/alternatives/perl*

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