[Pdx-pm] Custom CentOS RPM of Perl
Roderick A. Anderson
raanders at cyber-office.net
Tue Mar 30 13:17:31 PDT 2010
Daniel Browning wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 March 2010 11:56:02 am Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> I have seen postings (mostly on the Catalyst list) that the Perl RPM for
> the Redhat based distributions is pretty bad.
>
Thanks Daniel, and Keith Lofstrom, and J. Shirley for you insights.
Especially about not replacing (or using) the distribution Perl.
> I agree. For one, I prefer a non-threaded perl.
>
>> I'd like to build (or find) a Perl RPM that replaces the one provided.
>> This is for CentOS systems.
>
> Here is one that I use and recommend:
>
> http://packages.endpoint.com/
Thank you!
> The catch is that it does not replace the system perl, it only supercedes it
> by installing in /usr/local/ (which is generally ahead of /usr/). The RPM
> files are named local-perl-* instead of perl-* to keep them separate.
>
> If part of your motivation for replacing the system perl is due to hard-
> coded paths to /usr/bin/perl, I suggest replacing them with this:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env perl
>
> Then they will automatically use /usr/local/ in a standard environment
> configuration. (Or they can all be switched to something else just by
> changing the environment, and you don't have to modify a host of paths. DRY
> principle and all that.)
Thanks again.
>> Is this something a mostly sane person :-) should try?
>
> Personally, I wouldn't try to replace the system perl because the other
> software linked to it probably depends on the very things I want to change,
> such as threadiness. Theoretically, if you descend deep enough into the
> dependencies (e.g. Apache, MySQL, etc.), you could resolve all of that, but
> I would predict the loss of at least some sanity.
Oh yeah. I descended into that recursive existence before. No thanks.
Dealing with CPAN dependencies is enough.
> Hope that helps,
It does.
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Rod
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