Le Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 05:54:35PM -0700, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... écrivait: > Oh, the ftp/http area is: > http://www.daft.com/pub/debian/perl/experimental > ftp://www.daft.com/pub/debian/perl/experimental
That's the second time you give a bad URL. :-) It's on ftp://ftp.daft.com/pub/debian/experimental. [tests of perl packages] I've made some serious tests about DB_File in perl-5.004 and indeed it does use DB 2.X, the fact that perl was linked with both libdb.so.2 and libdb.so.3 is certainly the cause. In order to correct this I looked what caused the link of perl with libdb.so.3, it's because perl is linked with -lndbm. So I removed ndbm from libswanted in Configure and rebuilt them and it corrected the problem, I now have perl-5.004 that does create db1.x db with DB_File. With this little change perl-5.004 does successfully pass all the tests (including the 65'th of lib/db-btree.t). There is no need to comment any test on perl-5.004 source package. And I checked in perl-5.005 source for this test and found this : $status = $X->get('y', $value) ; ok(65, 1) ; # hard-wire to always pass. the previous test ($status == 1) # only worked because of a bug in 1.85/6 So the previous fail was the result of a bug in libdb1 that we didn't use even if we wanted to. :-) Everything else seems good. An apt upgrade causes no problem, there is no need of any --force options. I also installed perl-5.005 and installed it without problems with --force-conflicts (I did not want to remove perl since there are many dependencies on it). Cheers, -- Hertzog Raphaël >> 0C4CABF1 >> http://prope.insa-lyon.fr/~rhertzog/
