Re: Brave New Perl
You need to put liblocal-gettext-perl on hold.
Bob
On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 08:03:35PM -0500, Brad wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote:
>
> > I tried to do a dselect update on my potato box today. New Perl debs caused a
> > lot of trouble.
>
> Yeah, the dependancies aren't all worked out yet... That's why potato is
> called 'unstable'.
>
> > 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.
>
> What you have to do is look at the dependancies and find out which package
> wants Perl 5.005. Then, put that package on hold until things become sane
> again ;)
>
> The best way to do this is to push 'R' right away on the conflict screen
> to restore the old status, then go down to the "perl-5.005" line and look
> for the line "foo depends on perl-5.005". Put package "foo" on hold (you
> may have to do this two or three times, if there's more that one package
> that needs 5.005 *sigh*)
>
> At the moment, i have 4 on hold: libgtk-perl, perl-tk, perlmagick, and
> pdl. There may be others that i don't have installed.
>
> > Should I wait until other packages "catch up" with the new Perl
> > installation?
>
> Good idea, some of the ones that would be removed are rather useful...
>
> > 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?
>
> If you go to the line "--- Up to date installed packages ---" and tell
> dselect to install that, it will mark all of them at once, so you don't
> have to go through manually and do it.
>
>
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