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erk!

by Notromda (Pilgrim)
on Aug 23, 2002 at 20:07 UTC ( [id://192430]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Notes on Upgrading to 5.8.0 on a production web server

No wonder I haven't done any upgrading of perl on my production servers. :P

At the same time, it is really annoying to try CPAN installs, as most of the time the CPAN modules wants to download and install the newest perl. And I'm always worried that it will miss compiling something in that I need that I didn't know was *not* a default item.

How do most people deal with this? Isn't there a way for the perl install to examine its own configuration before upgrading?

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Re: erk!
by dws (Chancellor) on Aug 23, 2002 at 20:20 UTC
    It is really annoying to try CPAN installs, as most of the time the CPAN modules wants to download and install the newest perl.

    I've been bit by this. A workaround that's worked for me is to download the latest version of CPAN.pm first.

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