From spencer at mecworks.com Sun Aug 4 23:56:47 2002 From: spencer at mecworks.com (Spencer Christensen) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:06:55 2004 Subject: [SLpm] Re: what next? (with a Debian/Perl question) In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020730083125.00a674f0@63.226.115.229> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020718094322.02946410@63.226.115.229> <20020707234402.B25568@xmission.com> <1026085701.3d28d34555581@www.mecworks.com> <20020707234402.B25568@xmission.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20020718094322.02946410@63.226.115.229> <5.1.0.14.0.20020730083125.00a674f0@63.226.115.229> Message-ID: <1028523407.3d4e058f95d44@www.mecworks.com> Quoting Ryan : > Well, I take it I would be the only one there if I went. Time to think > of > another idea. Lunch sounds cool. Can someone suggest a time and place? Hires on 400 South and 700 East is always good. Maybe Tues the 13th or Wed the 14th? Noon. Any one else insterested in coming? > I also have a question. I have a Debian 2.1 (potato) box with Perl 5.6.1 > that I installed via CPAN. It took forever to get the installation just > right with all my favorite modules in place. Of course the latest > version > of Debian has come out 2.2 (woody) that includes Perl 5.6.1. My question > is > - what will happen to my custom installation of 5.6.1 if I upgrade these > boxes using apt-get or dselect? It seems to me that so many .deb > packages > rely on Perl that I can't simply choose to not install the Perl packages > without getting a lot of dependency warnings. Unfortunately I don't have > a > test box to try this out on, only 3 production servers. Has anyone else > out > there done this? Mmmm, Unfortunately when installing Debian packages, it doesn't look to see what Perl modules have been installed from CPAN or otherwise (as far as I know). It only checks the database of installed deb packages (this is the same behavior for all packaging systems that I'm aware of). So, basically, if there is a dependency on a perl module, then it will need to install the appropriate dep package (basically re-installing the perl module if you installed it by hand). But this shouldn't be much of a problem at all. I recommend sticking with the deb packages for all your core functionality and most of your perl modules as well. That way any other packages that might have a perl dependency will work. But for modules that can't be found with dselect, use CPAN. I used to have a debian box and this is how I did it and never had any problems. > Also, what experience have you all had with installing > 5.8.0? Did things go smooth, or were there hitches? > > -Ryan Haven't tried 5.8.0 yet. -spencer christensen spencer@mecworks.com ----------------------------------------- Salt Lake Perl Mongers group To post messges, send email to saltlake-pm@pm.org Web site: http://saltlake.pm.org To unsubscribe, send a blank email message to saltlake-pm@pm.org with "unsubscribe" as the subject.