Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:29:26 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@inpharmatica.co.uk> To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: Sean Chittenden <sean-freebsd-stable@chittenden.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Perl 5.6 merged soon? Message-ID: <3AB20726.6032EC5B@inpharmatica.co.uk> References: <20010315080445.A57062@clyde.goodleaf.net> <20010315095551E.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <20010315121201.E54243@rand.tgd.net> <20010315201739.C23970@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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j mckitrick wrote:
>
> | Cancelling out of perl5.6 builds while doing a package install
> | in CPAN is getting a bit old... -sc
>
> I figure this, like other similar issues, is a tradeoff between cutting edge
> software and production level stability and security. It just takes time.
If you install the latest CPAN Bundle you should find that the tendency for
perl to try and upgrade itself goes away (or at least, happens a lot less
often):
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::CPAN'
Current version is CPAN-1.59_54 compared to CPAN-1.48 as bundled with
perl5.005_03.
Matthew
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