For anyone's interest, I've put at the bottom part of the state of affairs that brought me to this solution.

=====

[as root]
I've run fink:

remove perl560 perl560-core
install perl580 (perl580-core was already installed)
scanpackages
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

and things are rolling along (222 packages to upgrade)

when that's done i'll get back around to the fink selfupdate and update-all

I'll let y'all know if it gets bumpy again.

Looking good...,

Thanks again Dan,

Robert


At 11:29 PM +0000 5/11/04, Daniel E. Macks wrote:
Sounds like you're compiling a package that expects perl 5.8.0 or
higher (which knows those MakeMaker parameters and comes with
Test::More but yout /sw/bin/perl appears to be 5.6.0. You say you have
perl580-core installed, so try installing perl580 also (which updates
/sw/bin/perl to 5.8.0). Alternatively, install the test-simple-pm
package to get Test::More for perl 5.6.0; you'll still get the
MakeMaker warnings, but I think they are harmless.

dan

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===== the old and bad situation:


(10.2-gcc3.3 unstable)
fink apropos perl brought back, among other things:

(i) perl560 5.6.0-13 Practical extraction and report language, v. 5.6.0
(i) perl560-core 5.6.0-13 Core files for perl, v. 5.6.0
perl561 5.6.1-1 Practical extraction and report language, v. 5.6.1
perl561-core 5.6.1-1 Core files for perl, v. 5.6.1
perl580 5.8.0-12 The Perl programming language, v. 5.8.0
i perl580-core 5.8.0-12 Core files for perl, v. 5.8.0


== so fink install perl580 yielded:

The following package will be installed or updated:
perl580
dpkg -i /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/languages/perl580_5.8.0-12_darwin-powerpc.deb
Selecting previously deselected package perl580.
dpkg: regarding .../perl580_5.8.0-12_darwin-powerpc.deb containing perl580:
perl560 conflicts with podparser-pm
perl580 provides podparser-pm and is to be installed.
dpkg: error processing /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/languages/perl580_5.8.0-12_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install):
conflicting packages - not installing perl580
Errors were encountered while processing:
/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/languages/perl580_5.8.0-12_darwin-powerpc.deb
### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1
Failed: can't install package perl580-5.8.0-12


== that brings us back to the top of this message with removing perl560 and perl560-core


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