Re: problems with perl 5.6 and debconf
Just an observation:
We found ourselves removing and reinstalling debconf
and /var/lib/debconf on every machine. That's not a big
deal **once we figured it out.**
The second observation is that yes, there seemed as of
last week few modules for 5.6, most were still 5.005.
Storable was an issue for us. We had to build it from
CPAN.
The other observation relates to that: older non-packaged
modules that we'd built from CPAN were causing problems.
That's to be expected, though they had been there so
long we'd forgotten. I think what happened is that
/usr/local/site-perl moved **ahead** of 5.005 in the
search path.
It's just cruft; I'm figuring a complete wipe and
reinstall of perl once the bigger proportion of the
modules are up to 5.6. YMMV.
cfm
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 08:08:08PM +0000, Georg Bauer wrote:
> Hi!
>
> The current woody is borken regarding perl5.6: most packages are still
> 5.005, so 5.6 programs usually won't work since there are not enough
> packages for basic tasks. So some programs barf if your perl 5.6 is your
> default perl (btw: why is there no alternative system installed on my
> machine? I had to install the alternatives to switch my perls by hand,
> /usr/bin/perl was a hard link to /usr/bin/perl-5.6.0). After fixing
> that, most debhelper tools and other stuff works again. But now debconf
> doesn't work. Debconf uses some modules that use perl 5.6 features, so
> my default 5.005 doesn't work. But switching to 5.6 as default doesn't
> work, too.
>
> Aaaaargh.
>
> Anybody has the last debconf that's _not_ 5.6 dependend available? So I
> can install that and set it to hold so that apt-get upgrade doesn't
> stomp all over it next upgrade?
>
> It's not as if debconf is of any value to the debian configuration
> system ...
>
> bye, Georg
>
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