SV: Thoughts about Perl and up2date in RH

[Anders Andersson, IT]

> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> 
> At 11:45 30/10/2002, you wrote:
> >Hi
> >This might be sligtly off but I just needed to find out.
> >Did an upgrade last night to v4 and also added SA from rpm
> >on my RH 7.3 computer at home. Had to install v4 first so SA
> >didnt complain about missing Perl packages. Everything seems
> >to run fine and still do but when I did up2date in RH, it upgraded
> >some perl modules.
> >
> >My question is, since I havent figured out CPAN, whats the chance
> >of breaking something important in perl by allow RH to upgrade
> >my perl-packages?
> 
> You should be fine.
> Keep an eye on MIME-tools though, if it upgrades that it 
> might "upgrade" it
> to one without all the security patches, which would be "A 
> Bad Thing(tm)".

And they way to be sure is?
Tried CPAN once and everything broke so I
really dont like the thought having to use that again.
I can only hope RH made a safe upgrade instead 
of downgrade.


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> Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
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