Re: Beware of broken perl installation
I don't know about apt but about potato and frozen: potato == frozen
(frozen is simply a symlink to potato).
Ron Rademaker
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Oki DZ wrote:
> I have a system with broken perl installation, the output of
> apt-get -s install perl is attached below.
> It's kinda scary, isn't it...?
>
> The installed perl (according to dpkg) is perl-5.005, why did I get
> "perl-5.004" to be installed?
>
> BTW, I installed the machine using potato floppies, then I changed the
> sources.list to point to frozen. I recall that I didn't do "apt-get
> update;apt-get dist-upgrade", just "apt-get update;apt-get upgrade." Do I
> have to "dist-upgrade" to upgrade potato to frozen? Or, actually the
> meaning should be the opposite; potato to frozen is downgrading. Or, it
> could be just about time; OK potato, but potato when?
>
> Oki
> ps: sorry about the not so correct English.
>
> ============
> Reading Package Lists...
> Building Dependency Tree...
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> gdk-imlib1 gnome-libs-data libart2 libopenldap-runtime perl-5.004
> perl-5.004-base perl-5.004-doc postgresql-client
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> debconf esound esound-common gmc gnome-bin gnome-core gnudip horde imp
> libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libdigest-md5-perl libesd-alsa0 libgnome32
> libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32 libgnorba27 libgnorbagtk0 mysql-client
> mysql-server perl-5.005 perl-5.005-base snort
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> perl perl-5.004 perl-5.004-base perl-5.004-doc postgresql-client
> 4 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 23 to remove and 131 not upgraded.
> 1 packages not fully installed or removed.
> Remv imp
> Remv gnudip
> Remv horde
> Remv mysql-server
> Remv mysql-client
> Inst perl-5.004-base [perl-5.005 on perl-base]
> Remv gmc
> Remv libgnorba27 [gnome-bin ]
> Remv gnome-core [gnome-bin ]
> Remv libgnome32 [gnome-bin ]
> Remv libgnomesupport0 [gnome-bin ]
> Remv libgnomeui32 [gnome-bin ]
> Remv gnome-bin [libgnorbagtk0 ]
> Remv libgnorbagtk0
>
>
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