2009/3/4 Geoffrey Leach <geoff@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On 03/04/2009 11:12:33 AM, Dave Cross wrote: >> 2009/3/4 Reber, Simon <simon.reber@xxxxxxxxx>: >> > I suggest to download the tar.gz package from http://www.cpan.de >> and >> install it using: >> > perl Makefile.PL >> > make >> > make install >> >> Firstly, if you're going to point someone at CPAN then please use the >> canonical URL (http://www.cpan.org/) rather than a national mirror. >> >> Secondly, mixing RPM-installed modules and CPAN-installed modules in >> the same Perl installation is a recipe for disaster. I strongly >> recommend avoiding it whenever possible. > > Actually, that's not the case. Here's what I do. YMMV. > > Install _minimal_ Perl as rpms. That's just perl and whatever comes > with it on yum install. Then get the CPAN rpm, and whatever comes with > it. > > After this, use cpan to install whatever you need. The cli interface is > simple and easy to use. The value of this is that if you install > (rather than upgrade) new Fedora distos, your cpan-installed modules > are not affected, always assuming that /usr/local is a separate file > system. Yeah, I worked like that for years. But my Perl installations always gradually deteriorated. Once I switched to RPM-only installations (and learnt how to make RPMs of CPAN modules that weren't in the repositories) my life became much happier. See http://www.slideshare.net/davorg/perl-in-rpmland-presentation for more details. And http://rpm.mag-sol.com/ for my repository of RPMs of CPAN modules. Cheers, Dave... -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
