Bug#550825: Resolved: Unable to upgrade perl

2009-10-14 Thread JetWhiz
What exactly did you do to fix this, Alexander? My apt is hosed by this same issue right now. - Charlie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#550825: Resolved: Unable to upgrade perl

2009-10-14 Thread Mader, Alexander (N-MSR)
JetWhiz schrieb: What exactly did you do to fix this, Alexander? My apt is hosed by this same issue right now. Perhaps I suffered from some other issue. I had safe-rm installed where /usr/bin/rm is a symbolic link to /usr/bin/safe-rm which is a perl script. So I just removed the link

Bug#550825: Resolved: Unable to upgrade perl

2009-10-14 Thread JetWhiz
Ah, nice catch ... I was wondering what perl script was running during the upgrade and killing it. Defaulting /usr/bin/rm to /bin/rm at least gets you through the upgrade. It looks like safe-rm uses English to get the program name (instead of just using $0), so I'm wondering if yanking

Bug#550825: Resolved: Unable to upgrade perl

2009-10-13 Thread Mader, Alexander (N-MSR)
Hello, the culprit was: safe-rm which is an perl script itself and apparently prevented perl paths from deletion. After replacing it by the original rm (/bin/rm not /usr/bin/rm) the upgrade succeeded. I beg your pardon for the fast cry in the first place :-) Best regards, -- Alexander