*Darren Stalder wrote: > Raphael Hertzog, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: > >Le Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 02:44:25PM -0700, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... écrivait: > >> Developers will have to build their packages with perl-5.004 first. > >> This is because if you install perl-5.005 with the --force-conflicts, > >> you can't use apt-get anymore. Since apt-get doesn't allow you to say > >> "Do it anyway!", people would have choice of having anything depending > >> on perl installed or building 5.005 packages. > > > >We can't manage something like that, we must switch to perl-5.005 right > >now. > > > >Developers can install perl-5.005, compile their package, upload them > >and then remove perl-5.005 again until everything is upgraded. > > This is my reluctant conclusion. But people aren't going to like it...
If I understand correctly. I can get perl-5.005 and perl-5.005-base, and install with dpkg --force-conflicts. Then compile my packages (using that environment variable mentioned in an earler post). Then I can simply purge the two 5.005 packages and apt and dpkg will think my system is OK again. I don't think thats too much trouble, especially if having the 5.005 packages installed doesn't break the system in the meantime, except that the package managers think its broken. -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre
