On Sun, 18 May 2008, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > > - the circumstances where this shows up in the Debian context are > > somewhat a corner case where 'preinst upgrade' scripts that need XS > > modules may get run with a new XS module but the old perl. The > > package dependencies are not yet guaranteed to be met at the > > 'preinst' time, hence the 'eval "require Foo"' construct. > > I've heard that dpkg2 was going to support pre-inst and post-uninst > dependencies. (Just like rpm does, which creates approximately the same > number of problems than it solves)
As a current maintainer of dpkg, I can tell you that dpkg2 has never been anything else than vaporware. I know of nobody working on a dpkg rewrite. > > Hm, one option could be to have the packaging system (dpkg) set > > PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 for all preinst script invocations... > > I'm not 100% sure that's a good idea. Can you elaborate on the reasons? Are there stuff which could break? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
