installing perl 5.6.1-5

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

My Ultra is still a potato system, but I needed to build the most recent
jpilot, and to make a long story short, I need the latest perl.

I don't want to upgrade this system to woody for several reasons, so I
built the perl packages from source, which went just fine, but I can't
install the result.

Installing libperl5.6 went fine, but as soon as I tried to replace
perl-base I ran into trouble. The first failure suggested
--auto-deconfigure, which I tried with the following result:

ultra:~/build/perl# dpkg -i --auto-deconfigure perl-base_5.6.1-5_sparc.deb perl_5.6.1-5_sparc.deb
dpkg: considering removing perl-5.004-base in favour of perl-base ...
dpkg: yes, will remove perl-5.004-base in favour of perl-base.
dpkg: considering removing perl-5.005-base in favour of perl-base ...
dpkg: yes, will remove perl-5.005-base in favour of perl-base.
dpkg: /root/dpkg-2.6.15/main/archives.c:601: check_conflict: Assertion
`fixbyrm->clientdata->istobe == itb_normal' failed.
Aborted
ultra:~/build/perl#

This suggests that I need a newer dpkg, but I am not ready to pull the
rest of this system up to unstable.

I thought about just brute-force removing the offending packages, but I'm
conserned that the system may not work well enough to install the new
perl.

Is there a way to get where I want to be?

Thanks,

Dwarf
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