Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 23:53:25 -0500 From: Ben Weaver <bweaver@tranquility.net> To: Hervey Wilson <herveyw@dynamic-cast.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Perl 5.003 / 5.6 / CPAN Message-ID: <20010402235325.A49468@tranquility.net> In-Reply-To: <005c01c0bbe0$e10e67e0$0101a8c0@chillipepper>; from herveyw@dynamic-cast.com on Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 06:53:27PM -0700 References: <005c01c0bbe0$e10e67e0$0101a8c0@chillipepper>
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Are you sure the Modules you want to install need 5.6? I've installed many perl modules (including some which exist in the ports collection) straight from the tarballs I download from cpan.perl.com. They seem to work fine. -Ben ###On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 06:53:27PM -0700, Hervey Wilson wrote: > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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