SV: Thoughts about Perl and up2date in RH

[Julian Field]

At 16:21 30/10/2002, you wrote:
> > -----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?

Type /usr/bin/perl -v
and /usr/local/bin/perl -v
If they are different versions, odds on CPAN installed the /usr/local version.
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
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