Re: Perl breakage
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
> 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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It worked for you, because of your current dir?
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