Bug#61418: marked as done (installs perl-5.004 and docs unnecessarily)
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Subject: installs perl-5.004 and docs unnecessarily
From: Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf@epkowa.co.jp>
Date: 31 Mar 2000 09:48:36 +0900
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I've just installed potato (2.2.8-2000-03-09) and updated (2000-03-30)
so all I have is the base system. When I installed apache, apt-get
decides I need perl-5.004 and perl-5.004-doc while all apache depends
on is perl | perl5. As I have perl-5.005-base installed, I'd expect
that perl-5.005 would get installed. I most certainly wouldn't expect
the docs to get installed as well.
When doing the same thing with dselect use apt as its access method
this does not happen.
bilbo:~# apt-get --simulate install apache
[...]
The following NEW packages will be installed:
apache apache-common mime-support perl-5.004 perl-5.004-base perl-5.004-doc
[...]
bilbo:~# dpkg -l | grep perl
ii perl-5.005-bas 5.005.03-7 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister
ii perl-base 5.005.03-1.1 Fake package assuring that one of the -base
The output that installing via dselect (using apt as access method!)
[...]
The following NEW packages will be installed:
apache apache-common mime-support perl-5.005
Dependencies
ldso: 1.9.11-5
libc6: 2.1.3-7
libstdc++2.10: 2.95.2-8
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Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 18:48:18 -0700 (MST)
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca>
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Subject: Re: Bug#61418: installs perl-5.004 and docs unnecessarily
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On 31 Mar 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> on is perl | perl5. As I have perl-5.005-base installed, I'd expect
> that perl-5.005 would get installed. I most certainly wouldn't expect
Nope, apache depends on perl (or perl5, but that is irrelevent), perl
depends on perl-5.004 and per-5.004-doc. In the absence of other input the
policy guide says dpkg and things select the first item in an or group.
The reason it worked in dselect is because dselect also selected
perl-5.005 either because you told it to or something else
suggests/recommends on it. You can do the same with apt, just 'install
apache perl-5.005' and tada.
Jason
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