On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 11:59:14AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > > After an apt-get update, -upgrade I tried dist-upgrade today. But, > > huh? I did't tell to remove apache or other services! > > I think this is another "Great Perl Upgrade" with massive associated breakage. > For now, I'm holding all of the perl packages on my system, including many that > depend on "perl" (i.e. the new perl packages), and keeping the new ones out > (perl-modules, perl, etc.). At some point I'll upgrade everything, when I have > the time and patience to go through all of the dependency cycles in dselect, > changing the vast lists of - to +. :-( > > The upgrade went decently on an i386 system yesterday, but of course, that's > i386... yeah that was discussed on -devel the other day, the problem is some of the perl packages are archetecture independent, so they need no compiling and are instantly installed on all archetectures, but the binary packages failed to compile (or compile slowly) for powerpc and maybe another arch or two, that rather severely borks the dependencies until the binary packages get built. it should clear up in a few days. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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