No need to answer the post below. I am alread trying to build a perl based package (pdl). I am having a lot of trouble building the package (probably the fault is with the pdl, not with the perl package.) I'll post the results.
*John Lapeyre wrote: > 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
