[Chicago-talk] cpan problems in Fedora 9

[Alan Mead]

I know this isn't a Fedora mailing list but if any of use F9, I think 
you may have solved this problem and some of you may know what level of 
support Perl has in Fedora these days.

I've previously used FC3 & FC4, and in F9 the cpan script is apparently 
split off as a separate rpm (which is inconvenient).  When I tried to 
use yum to install the perl-CPAN module, I get an error message "Error: 
Missing Dependency: perl = 4:5.10.0-20.fc9 is needed by package 
perl-CPAN-1.9205-20.fc9.i386 (fedora)" which is funny (ha ha) because 
the installed version of Perl is 5.10.0-31.fc9...  I don't know whether 
I'll have problems later? but I think I have solved it by manually 
downloading perl-CPAN and forcing it to be installed.

I was also wondered whether anyone had a thought about whether it's 
better to use Fedora's pre-compiled modules or just use cpan?  I guess 
the pre-built DBI/DBD modules have been useful, but a lot of the modules 
I might use are not there so I've always just relied upon the cpan 
script in the past.

-Alan

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