RE: Brave New Perl
On 03-Jul-99 Christian Dysthe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to do a dselect update on my potato box today. New Perl debs caused
> a
> lot of trouble.
>
> After dselect saw the new Perl's it wanted to remove A LOT of (important)
> packages so I had to say no to the upgrade. Then I tried to freeze the Perl
> upgrade to be able to do the other avaialble upgrades, but no go. whatever I
> do
> dselect wants to do major changes to my system. Some Perl packages described
> as
> "fake" confuse me, and I have given up using dselect at all right now since
> whatever I try to do means all these packages will be removed and I am not
> able
> to freeze the old Perl with ='s in a way that leaves my installation intact.
>
> Should I wait until other packages "catch up" with the new Perl
> installation? If
> I have a lot of packages marked for removal right now. I guess I will have
> to
> go through it all and mark them installed again also?
>
> Help needed! :) TIA
Same here, only two packages were removed though. I won't know if the system
is broken until something goes wrong, but I believe the removal of the two
Python packages was correct.
--
Andrew
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