OpenSUSE 11.4 provides the Perl version as an RPM package. If you can't solve it like this and are weighing the fact of porting it to OS X be aware that although update-alternatives' first incarnation was a Perl script, it was rewritten in C for Debian, and some other distros adopted it later (for instance openSUSE 12.1). Or simply changing $PATH: PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH I have personally solved the lack of update-alternatives with aliases in my. Unfortunately, and although some think it would be necessary, at least for MacPorts, there is no such thing in OS X.
Update-alternatives, found in many Linux distros, creates and manages a set of symlinks from /bin, /usr/bin (and the like) to /etc/alternatives, and from there to the location where the program is installed.įor example, in openSUSE java is symlinked to /etc/alternatives/java, which is symlinked to a "private" path where java resides: /usr/bin/java -> /etc/alternatives/java vile) by making one of them the default one. update-alternatives elegantly solves the problem of managing several installed versions of a program (for example Java) or different ports of a program ( vim vs. I understand the motivation behind your question.
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