On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:32:14 -0600 "Martin G. McCormick" <mar...@server1.shellworld.net> wrote:
> I am using cpanp or cpan plus to handle perl modules on > a FreeBSD system. If I give the command > > cpanp -i Net::DNS > it installs Net::DNS 0.73. Normally, this is exactly what one > would want it to do but Net::DNS0.73 is buggy. At least one bug > causes domain name server or DNS updates to fail so I either > want the version just below Net:DNS0.73 or there are a couple of > versions of it dated January of 2014, basically anything but the > one it keeps trying to install. You can provide the exact one you want, e.g.: cpanp -i NLNETLABS/Net-DNS-0.72.tar.gz (I don't use cpanplus, but I'd imagine that'll work; it does with cpan and cpanm) -- David Precious ("bigpresh") <dav...@preshweb.co.uk> http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ www.preshweb.co.uk/twitter www.preshweb.co.uk/linkedin www.preshweb.co.uk/facebook www.preshweb.co.uk/cpan www.preshweb.co.uk/github -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/