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backgrading Perl (Score:1)
on a Debian based system line Ubuntu it should also be possible to revert the upgrade to bin/perl itself, reinstalling the older 5.8
8 as bin/perl with the Debs, and pinning that version. this may rollback and block an expanding number of dependant upgrades, however.
as is stated elsewhere, having app prod perl be OS bin/perl is dangerous, best to have your own.
Bill
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as is stated elsewhere, having app prod perl be OS bin/perl is dangerous, best to have your own.
Every time I think about this I am torn. I'm sure most people know the pros and cons of relying on the OS perl install. The big problem that I see is that my operating system provides me with an excellent package manager. A package manager that I have to use anyway, too.
I've always thought it would be useful to have some standardized disto packages that provide an alternate Perl install.
Debian and Ubuntu already have a pretty large percentage of the CPAN modules I need rolled up into packages. However,
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I do this at work. I build site-specific debian packages for perl, all the dual-life core modules, plus a lot of CPAN.
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It would be nice to be able to share the work of building and maintaining these packages. I wonder how many of us there are that actually maintain packages for the software we build from source.
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Much of my work for this is already pushed to http://github.com/jbenjore/CPANPLUS-Dist-Deb/tree/master [github.com] which will later be packaged for release to http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPANPLUS-Dist-Deb/ [cpan.org].