From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 2 18:53:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from matrix.dynamic-cast.com (r175-5-dsl.sea.lightrealm.net [216.122.5.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C140237B720 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 18:53:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from herveyw@dynamic-cast.com) Received: from chillipepper (chillipepper.dynamic-cast.com [192.168.1.1]) by matrix.dynamic-cast.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f331rPp67240 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 18:53:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from herveyw@dynamic-cast.com) Message-ID: <005c01c0bbe0$e10e67e0$0101a8c0@chillipepper> From: "Hervey Wilson" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Perl 5.003 / 5.6 / CPAN Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 18:53:27 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On my FreeBSD 4.2 Release system I want to obtain some Perl packages that do not appear to be available in ports. Concerned that this might be problematic, I did a search of the mailing lists and found a recent recommendation to use CPAN directly rather than the ports collection for Perl modules. I fired up 'perl -MCPAN -e shell' and there were a few things that it wanted to update, primarily Bundle::CPAN. I let it go ahead until I spotted it downloading Perl 5.6 which I was a little concerned about so I stopped the download. I checked the ports version of Perl5 (5.6) but this contains the strong warning that the package is FORBIDDEN because of conflicts with the Perl5 in the base system. I searched for information on upgrading the base system to Perl 5.6, found a few people that had asked, but didn't find any responses. My questions are: - Has anyone successfully installed the ports collection version of Perl (5.6) ? - If so, can you provide any hints / tips to avoid problems ? - If I do a "make world" will the 5.6 version get trashed ? - Is Perl 5.6 in the upcoming 4.3 release ? Thanks in advance, Hervey. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message