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[Jeremy Kolb <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>]

Thanks Hamish! Seems to be compiling fine. I'll let you know if it blows
up. Thanks

Jeremy

On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 00:06, Hamish Greig wrote:
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> On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:51, Jeremy A. Kolb wrote:
> > So at the moment I can't recompile it?
> >
> > On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > > Quoting "Jeremy A. Kolb" <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>:
> > > > why is perl conflicts withitself? cast fix will not fix it (libdb
> > > > version) because it
> > > > conflicts with itself.  That's not cool.
> > >
> > > The reason this is a problem is that perl is considered sustained
> > > software (I forget why, any ideas?).  I believe perl won't compile
> > > properly if it exists during the compilation, so conflicts was supposed
> > > to take care of this, but it will not dispel itself due to being
> > > sustained.
> > >
> > > Ideas? Corrections?
> > >
> > > -sandalle
> >
> I asked that perl get added to sustained list as it is needed in basesystem 
> and if it is dispelled you can't do a sorcery rebuild. But i think at that 
> time it wasn't in basesystem DEPENDS. 
> Maybe we should remove it from sustained list and leave it in basesystem 
> DEPENDS so a sorcery rebuild will find it not installed and cast it ?
> That would fix this problem i think
> jkolb, for now just remove perl from /var/lib/sorcery/sustained and then it 
> will behave as you want it too.
> Hamish
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