From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 6 11:16:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from malasada.lava.net (malasada.lava.net [199.222.42.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72F4B37BFA4 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 11:16:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cliftonr@lava.net) Received: from localhost (1599 bytes) by malasada.lava.net via sendmail with P:stdio/R:inet_hosts/T:smtp (sender: ) (ident using unix) id for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 09:15:39 -1000 (HST) (Smail-3.2.0.106 1999-Mar-31 #3 built 1999-Dec-7) Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 09:15:39 -1000 From: Clifton Royston To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Jaime Bozza , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Perl Base Modules Message-ID: <20000306091538.B1871@lava.net> References: <10269.952369189@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <10269.952369189@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 08:59:49PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Mon, 06 Mar 2000 11:33:17 CST, "Jaime Bozza" wrote: > > > (Have you used CPAN to update/install modules before?) > > The last time I tried was when 3.0 was CURRENT, I think. It didn't go > too smoothly then. I did manage to brute-force it into updating a > module or two, but it wasn't something I made a note to recommend to > FreeBSD new-comers. :-( Well, as a FreeBSD newcomer, I used the CPAN module quite recently, around the point I was bringing my 3.3 CD-ROM install up to 3.4 stable, and found it reasonably friendly (albeit in the "choosy about its friends" sense.) Naturally the first thing I had it update was itself, but after that it was easy to grab quite a few modules I needed for a Squid support script I was working on. Give it another chance? -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- LavaNet Systems Architect -- cliftonr@lava.net The named which can be named is not the Eternal named. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message