<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">> PS on a related note; we've also thought about installing CPAN modules<br>
> on new boxes by simply copying the perl/site directory from a working<br>
> box. Assuming that the OS matches down to the patch level, is this a<br>
> safe approach?<br>
<br>
</div>Well, you'll hit the same problems as we do with PAR when there are .dll/.so<br>
or other dependencies that don't necessarily live in perl/site. It also<br>
sounds rather difficult when it comes to backing out the changes; with a<br>
.par file you just delete the file.<br>
<br>
I've not tried copying the directories myself, so YMMV.</blockquote><div><br>WebGUI does the "copy the directory" thing for its "runtime environment" distribution, they bundle up a build of perl with a custom install dir, all required cpan modules, MySQL, Apache, etc.. into a subdir and then make that available for download (on a per-linux-distro basis). Co-exists fairly well next to your system perl, and you can easily backup/move your entrie web environment between machines.<br>
<br>Patrick</div></div>