On Friday 18 February 2011 08:45:37 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-02-18 01:57 +0100, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote: > > Gentlemen, I find no way to install the experimental version of perl. > > The only reasonable way to do this is to set up a dedicated chroot for > it where you can spare the packages that you would normally use. > > > It gets tangled up with too many paths perl-base -> perlapi-* etc. > > Yes, there are hundreds of packages which depend on perlapi-5.10* and > which become uninstallable when you replace perl 5.10 with perl 5.12. A > possible way out of this would be some Ubuntu-style PPA with packages > rebuilt against perl 5.12, but currently Debian lacks such > infrastructure, unfortunately. DebExpo is supposed to alleviate this issue somewhat, yes? Also, I think the PPA stuff is similar to the OBS in that you can use either to host packages for many different distributions (including Debian). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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