[za-pm] cpan useage

[Traci Riemer]

Hi Anne

Thanks for the access to the mailig list.
I would like to know if there is anyone in South Africa who is familiar with
the DBIx::JCL framework.
Are you perhaps, or shall I just post it in the mailing list?

Many thanks and kind regards

Traci

On 5 March 2011 23:02, Anne Wainwright <anotheranne at fables.co.za> wrote:

> Note: Beware! Default reply-to is to the list.
>
>
> Hi,
>
> A couple of notes & queries.
>
> one.
> I had for some unknown reason been using '$ sudo cpan', except that
> certain things would not install without the 'sudo'
>
> I had no idea why, but want someone to baby-step me here and say,
> "That's right, no sudo"
>
> Some modules had thus been installed under my .cpan with root ownership.
> I did a recursive chown to get everything there under my own ownership.
> Not that this cured my problems.
>
> two.
> While checking out the version of various modules I noted:
>
> cpan> upgrade make::up::any::old::module::name
> All modules are up to date for any::old::module::name
>
> ie. if you make a mistake in the module name you want to update it will
> tell you that it is uptodate! Can't be right, can it?
>
> three.
> I also noted that following an upgrade (of a correctly named module)
> that the version reported by
>
> cpan> i my::correct::module::name
>
> was not the latest version as reported to be on cpan itself. I didn't
> see any indication of a problem on the upgrades (except one module
> only) on a whole batch. Why might this be? I am stuck with earlier
> versions than cpan - which might be the source of my problems.
>
> thanks in advance for any comments
> Anne
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