Re: Perl breakage

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

Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cistron.nl> writes:

> Previously 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
> 
> Sounds like perl 5.6 breaks update-alternatives, it works just fine for
> me with an older perl. I'm not upgrading my perl anytime soon I'm afraid
> so I suggest either downgrading your perl or debugging this yourself.
> 

i tried the same thing with perl-5.005 and it still doesn't work. joey
claims that it works on his machine with perl-5.6, but it doesn't work
here with any version of perl.

--alex--

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