Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 18:53:27 -0700 From: "Hervey Wilson" <herveyw@dynamic-cast.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Perl 5.003 / 5.6 / CPAN Message-ID: <005c01c0bbe0$e10e67e0$0101a8c0@chillipepper>
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On my FreeBSD 4.2 Release system I want to obtain some Perl packages that do not appear to be available in ports. Concerned that this might be problematic, I did a search of the mailing lists and found a recent recommendation to use CPAN directly rather than the ports collection for Perl modules. I fired up 'perl -MCPAN -e shell' and there were a few things that it wanted to update, primarily Bundle::CPAN. I let it go ahead until I spotted it downloading Perl 5.6 which I was a little concerned about so I stopped the download. I checked the ports version of Perl5 (5.6) but this contains the strong warning that the package is FORBIDDEN because of conflicts with the Perl5 in the base system. I searched for information on upgrading the base system to Perl 5.6, found a few people that had asked, but didn't find any responses. My questions are: - Has anyone successfully installed the ports collection version of Perl (5.6) ? - If so, can you provide any hints / tips to avoid problems ? - If I do a "make world" will the 5.6 version get trashed ? - Is Perl 5.6 in the upcoming 4.3 release ? Thanks in advance, Hervey. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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