[geeks] Linux on Ultrasparc

Tue Jan 8 08:35:08 CST 2002

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 11:42:23AM +0000, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:06:52AM -0500, James Sharp wrote:
> > I'm pulling down the ISOs for Debian & SuSe right now.  I got kinda
> > attached to Debian's apt-get...but I broke that in horribly squishy ways
> > when I upgraded the machine's perl from 5.005 to 5.6.1...but I'm sure
> > (hope?) that's fixed in the newer versions.
> 
> Parts of the package management system are written in perl, and so just
> like with a commercial OS like Solaris, replacing the vendor-supplied perl
> without regard to package dependencies is a Bad Idea.

Grr, they should have used a copy of perl in an unusual file location instead 
of forcing us to stick with their perl then.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd