[Chicago-talk] Re: Stealth Perl Install and then the old swap-a-roo?

[jason gessner]

well, thanks to good advice all around, I successfully built 5.8.2,  
installed to /usr/local and am letting the vendor install (/usr ) live.

i have little experience with debian, so i am sticking to what I know  
for now.....

thanks to all who offered advice!

-jason


On Nov 14, 2003, at 1:05 PM, Young, Aaron wrote:

> reading this again, i see you want 5.8.2, it might be available, i
> haven't updated in a week or three
>
> Aaron F Young
> Broker Reconciliation
> Operations & Portfolio Finance
> Citadel Investment Group LLC
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ed Summers [mailto:ehs at pobox.com]
>> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 11:11 AM
>> To: chicago-talk at mail.pm.org
>> Subject: [Chicago-talk] Re: Stealth Perl Install and then the
>> old swap-a-roo?
>>
>>
>>
>>> Want:
>>> replace perl 5.6.1 on my redhat 7.2 box with 5.8.2
>>>
>>> Proposed steps
>>> 1)  build 5.8.2 in a local director (/home/jason/perl5.8.2
>>> 2)  test it
>>> 3)  use that perl to install all of the modules I need
>>> 4)  remove all RPMs that rely on perl
>>> 5)  move this perl into place on top of the other perl
>>
>> I'm not sure you can do 3 without having performed 'make
>> install'. It's
>> worth a try though. I believe that 5.8.2 by default goes into
>> /usr/local, and
>> that rh7.2 comes with Perl in /usr/bin. So you might be able
>> to get away with
>> building, installing Perl, and grabbing the CPAN modules you
>> need...and then
>> removing the old /usr/bin/perl and symlinking /usr/bin/perl to
>> /usr/local/bin/perl.
>>
>> Alternatively (if Perl is already in /usr/local/bin/perl) you
>> could install
>> Perl into a custom directory, /usr/local/perl5.8.2 perhaps,
>> and then create
>> symlinks for the executables that come with Perl.
>>
>> Note: a handy trick for getting all the CPAN modules you
>> need. Using the old
>> Perl do this:
>>
>>     perl -MCPAN -e 'autobundle'
>>
>> This will create a listing of all your CPAN modules + their
>> version numbers
>> in ~/.cpan/Bundle/Snapshot_2003_11_14_00.pm. Or with
>> anotother suitable date.
>>
>> When you've got your new Perl build you can then:
>>
>>     perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::Snapshot_2003_11_14_00'
>>
>> This will go out to CPAN and download all you need, kind of
>> like aptget on
>> acid :) I have no idea how to make your RPM database happy
>> afterwards though.
>>
>> //Ed
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