While testing the upgrading of rex to hamm I have discovered several problems or possible bugs. I will post each of these as separate messages, and ask if anyone else has encountered them, and if they should be reported as bugs.
While updating perl 5.003.07-10 using perl_5.004.04-3.deb, I first installed perl-base_5.004.04-3.deb, then perl_5.004.04-3.deb. This resulted in the following error: dpkg: error processing perl (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 123 The perl.postinst script was examined, and the effects of the commands in this script were checked. The symlinks and directories to be created by this file existed, and the directories to be removed were not there. A dummy perl.postinst was prepared, and perl configured successfully by dpkg. I am using bash 2.01-5, and a custom compiled kernel 2.0.27. This problem is reproducible, at least on my system. I have The problem appears to be in the last command in perl.postinst: " find /usr/lib/perl5/i486-linux -type d -links 2 -print0 | xargs -r0 rmdir -p 2> /dev/null fi # the last will remove all the directories that are now empty or will be empty when the empty subdirs disappear" This command is intended to remove any empty subdirectories in /usr/lib/perl5/i486-linux. On my system, this find command returns three non-empty directories, which the rm command properly refuses to remove. So far so good. However, since the script is set -e, this causes it to exit immediately with a non-zero exit status [1]. IMHO, the -e option should be unset prior to this command, and another error trapping approach used that does not cause the script to fail when the rm command acts properly. As a test, I have removed the output redirection from this script and inserted echo statements before and after the find command in question. The echo statement immediately before the find command is executed, but the script exits before executing the second echo command. Has anyone else encountered this failure in perl? Should it be reported as a bug against perl? [1] The -e option does not cause a script to exit "if the command that fails . . . is part of an if statement". I am not sure if this means part of an if . . . then construct, or just part of the conditions of the if statement, but I believe it is the latter. Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .