Re: libdigest-sha1-perl

[Veljko <veljko3@gmail.com>]

On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 02:12:56PM +0200, Marcus Karlsson wrote:
> That's a bit odd, Digest::SHA is bundled as part of Perl, and when looking
> at that package [1] there's no mention of libdigest-sha1-perl. It sounds
> like a bug if the package actually requires Digest::SHA1.

It probably is as there is this in code:

######################################################################
## load_sha1_support
######################################################################
sub load_sha1_support {
    my $sha1_loaded = eval {require Digest::SHA1};
    unless ($sha1_loaded) {
        fatal(<<"EOM");
Error loading the Perl module Digest::SHA1 needed for freedns update.
On Debian, the package libdigest-sha1-perl must be installed.
EOM
    }
    import  Digest::SHA1 (qw/sha1_hex/);
}


> If you installed /usr/sbin/ddclient as part of package then things might
> break if the package is updated. I would do a separate install (eg. copy
> the binary and purge the package), or use dpkg-diverge to override the
> packaged version with your modified copy.

dpkg-diverge looks interesting. I'll look into it, thanks.

Regards,
Veljko