Re: Perl breakage

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

Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cistron.nl> writes:

> Previously Alex Romosan wrote:
> > there is no error and it's not segfaulting. it's just not doing
> > anything. the /usr/bin/perl link to /etc/alternatives/perl is not
> > created and /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/perl is not updated (it still
> > has the information for 5.005).
> 
> Look carefully and you will notice /var/lig/dpkg/perl appeared suddenly.
> Guess I should be more careful about touching the buildsystem after
> testing the code :( I'm building dpkg 1.7.1 now to fix this.
> 

so the question is: how come it worked for joey? maybe he didn't
update dpkg to 1.7.0.

--alex--

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