Re: manual update of apt database (was Best way to update perl on Woody Stable?)

2003-10-13 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 12:08:08AM -0500, Rod Rodolico wrote: Correct, dpkg and apt are useful tools. All tools have strengths and weaknesses. I love perl, and can not imagine living without it. But, I doubt I'll use it to create a database engine. So, I use the tool best for a given task.

Re: manual update of apt database (was Best way to update perl on Woody Stable?)

2003-10-10 Thread charlie derr
Rod Rodolico wrote: or 3. (if you have a lot of time on your hands) download the debianised source for perl 5.8 from unstable and recompile it on your woody system. do the same for any module packages that you need. i.e. backport the new perl to the old debian. a lot of people recommend

Re: manual update of apt database (was Best way to update perl on Woody Stable?)

2003-10-10 Thread Lance Levsen
other 10%, I download source and install. So, is there a way to manually update the apt database to tell it a package is installed. The reason I use Debian is because, for most of my Back to my original question. At this point, how do you tell apt that the package is installed. I assume I

manual update of apt database (was Best way to update perl on Woody Stable?)

2003-10-09 Thread Rod Rodolico
Changed the subject of this because it looks like a religious discussion coming up. this: On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:40:23PM -0500, Rod Rodolico wrote: Is there a way to tell apt (dselect) you have certain packages installed? If so, it would make sense to just trash the Debian perl install