Re: testing release of Perl packages
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John Lapeyre, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
> I did apt-get install perl
>and this upgraded a bunch of perl-5.004 packages. Then I did
> apt-get install perl-5.005 . This time, apt decided to install both
>perl-5.005 , and perl-5.005-base. Unfortunatley, I didn't notice that it
>was going to remove all of the packages that depend on perl. It removed 20
>or so before I noticed and stopped it. Unfortunately, I need some of these
>packages, and I don't have an extra machine to play with. Sorry I can't
>help testing further.
That's fine. This is why it's experimental. It should've told you that
it was removing the packages. When I run it on a system that needs
those packages, I get:
{-}[100]~ broca# apt-get install perl-5.005 perl-5.005-base
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
perl-5.004-base perl-5.004 perl-base perl-5.004-debug
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libterm-readline-gnu-perl liblocale-codes-perl troffcvt libmd5-perl
mysql-client libcurses-perl debhelper gnucash mailtools
libcompress-zlib-perl w3mir libtime-hires-perl apache-common
liburi-perl dns-browse libdelimmatch-perl libnet-rawip-perl
amanda-common libnet-whois-perl perl mysql-dev perl-debug mysql-doc
freewrl libgtk-perl debmake libnet-finger-perl libcgi-perl libdbi-perl
rplay libdbd-mysql-perl libhtml-parser-perl gimp1.1 apache
cgic-capture sysutils docbook-stylesheets mirror libterm-readkey-perl
autoconf libconvert-ber-perl liblocale-maketext-perl checkbot
procmail-lib pilot-link cvsweb libtime-period-perl
libi18n-langtags-perl libxml-parser-perl libroman-perl
libdbd-msql-perl libmsgcat-perl libcgicg1-dev dftp cvs-buildpackage
pcd2html libipc-signal-perl cons libio-stringy-perl dist mysql-server
libstorable-perl libxml-cgi-perl sgml-tools makepatch libnkf-perl mgp
mon libfile-sync-perl libnet-dns-perl pdl libapache-mod-auth-sys
info2www libparse-recdescent-perl libtext-format-perl pkg-order
libprpc-perl liblockdev0-perl libdate-manip-perl libtimedate-perl
dpkg-dev ssh man2html libmime-perl pilot-manager automake dwww
libapache-mod-perl libdatecalc-perl psptools libunicode-string-perl
libnet-perl satan libmime-base64-perl libxml-writer-perl mhonarc
perl-byacc libproc-waitstat-perl fvwm-common libimage-size-perl
sgml-data psgml libjcode-perl libapache-mod-roaming
libhtml-embperl-perl libterm-readline-perl-perl libgd1g-tools perl-tk
wu-ftpd-academ data-dumper xaw-wrappers libhtml-tree-perl
kernel-package libwww-perl ssh-askpass mailagent lintian alien
libcgicg1 weblint webmagick libnet-irc-perl amanda-client docbook
libgd-perl libunicode-map8-perl
The following NEW packages will be installed:
perl-5.004-base perl-5.004 perl-5.005 perl-5.004-debug perl-5.005-base
1 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 126 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 5365kB of archives. After unpacking 60.0MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
Didn't this happen for you?
Darren
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