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Re: [Cpanplus-devel] Advice requested; Automatic building of debian packages from CPAN modules



On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 01:58:57PM +0100, Jos I. Boumans wrote:
> 
> If you look at the failure, you'll see it was actually a script though  
> that failed to
> install, and i'm afraid they all go into the same bin dir...
> 
> 	dpkg: error processing libtest-harness-perl_2.42-1_all.d???eb  
> (--install):
> 	trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/prove', which is also in package perl
> 	Errors were encountered while processing:
> 	libtest-harness-perl_2.42-1_all.deb
> 
> So here there *is* a conflict...

ah, yes, that would have to be handled with dpkg alternatives, see the
man pages for the update-alternatives tool.

Stephen




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