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Re: New updated "1.2 installation problems" list.

On 18 Dec 1996, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:

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> Dale Scheetz, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
> >9. /bin/perl disapears and reappears during installation.
> >	Replace link by hand: ln -s /usr/bin/perl /bin/perl
> 
> Why is this a problem?  Having /bin/perl there is only for compatibility
> issues.  Some really old things look for /bin/perl.  It comes back as a
> symbolic link in the postinst.
> 
> The solution that you have shouldn't be necessary.  If the symbolic link
> isn't running in the postinst, something is wrong and Perl shouldn't be
> marked as configured.  Also, the symbolic link should be relative rather
> than absolute.
> 
As best I can tell from the report, perl (or someone) removes the link
during pre-install and later puts it back during post-install. In between
time packages that wish to use run perl via /bin/perl have their
per-install scripts fail because of this missing link.
This is a leftover from some confusion in 1.1 about the proper location
for perl. Seems that several packages still want to use the "wrong" place
(note: wrong means confused here)

If it's not one thing, its a whole bunch of things,

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