SPUG: CPAN question

[Peter Darley]

David,
	Great!  I'll do this.
Thanks,
Peter Darley

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-spug-list at pm.org [mailto:owner-spug-list at pm.org]On Behalf Of
David Vergin
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 10:55 PM
To: spug-list at pm.org
Subject: RE: SPUG: CPAN question


When the CPAN.pm module tries to upgrade to a newer version of Perl without
your
permission, the solution is to upgrade the CPAN.pm module itself!

Certain versions of the CPAN.pm module do this Perl upgrade in some
circumstances. The most recent versions do not do this. IIRC, the behavior
was
first observed in the spring of 2001 and the problem was resolved with a
newer
version of the CPAN.pm module in early summer.

David V.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-spug-list at pm.org [mailto:owner-spug-list at pm.org]On Behalf Of
> Chris Wilkes
> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 10:40 AM
> To: spug-list at pm.org
> Subject: Re: SPUG: CPAN question
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 08:52:40AM -0800, Peter Darley wrote:
> > Friends,
> >    Is there any way that I can get CPAN to not try to upgrade my perl
> >    5.005 to perl 5.6? I don't have the libs installed to use
> >    5.6, but would like to be able to use 'perl -MCAPN -e shell'.
> >      Thanks, Peter Darley
>
> Did you get any responses for this question as this has happened to me a
> number of times and I've just given up and upgraded.
>
> Poking around on http://groups.google.com I couldn't find an answer
> either, but it seems like this behavior happens when you do a 'force
> install' of a module.  Maybe that module requires 5.6.x?
>
> You could always just use CPAN to download the module for you and then cd
> into the ~/.cpan/build/ directory and compile it up yourself.
>
> Chris
>
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