Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 16:05:19 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: "Sean O'Neill" <sean@seanoneill.info> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question on maintenance of Perl Modules in FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020726150519.GA26503@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020726091420.00ad3200@postoffice.swbell.net> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020726091420.00ad3200@postoffice.swbell.net>
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On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 09:21:11AM -0500, Sean O'Neill wrote:
> Curious how folks do this. I have had bad luck with my Perl modules
> getting trashed when I upgrade my Perl distribution.
>
> I've changed my Config.pm for CPAN to point to another area for installing
> modules that I install. Also put PERL5LIB in /etc/profile with the proper
> settings. This all works fine.
>
> Do folks do this already ? Should my modules be getting trashed when I
> upgrade Perl assuming I let them install into the default area of
> /usr/local/lib/perl5...... ?
I got bitten by this once. Of course, the next time portupgrade told
me that there was a new update to perl, I carefully generated a list
of all the perl dependent packages I had installed so I could
reinstall them after updating perl. Except that this time round,
updating the perl port didn't trash all my extra perl modules. The
exceptions were stuff like the CPAN or CGI modules that both come with
core perl and have more up to date versions in ports.
I'm not sure how this affects BSDPAN- modules, because I don't have
any...
Running:
pkg_info -g p5-\* perl-\*
will go a long way towards confirming the integrity of whatever perl
stuff you have installed.
Cheers,
Matthew
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