With this being a production machine I would suggest finding a test box with the same OS and giving it a try or 10 if need be, far safer then seeing your production environment going down due to a simple case of oops, wrong button, but I thought...
If all of that is not possible you could maybe install perl 5.8 next to perl 5.6 and then simply leave the production environment as is and have the one application/script that needs 5.8 use that until you have had a chance to test the existing applications and scripts with the newer version. We are currently running with at least two versions of perl on most of our production machines. The standard with the OS delivered perl version 5.008 and then the one used by the monitoring team 5.6.1. When an application needs a different version of perl it simply is installed next to the existing two rather then risking taking a production system or its monitoring down. I do not fully agree with that way of working but in a company with +100k people these kinds of things usually are not up to the people that actually work with the software to decide. Regards, Rob Coops On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Eko Budiharto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It should be ok. I believe there will be no effect after upgradation. > > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Anirban Adhikary < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear List > > I have one sun solaris machine which has installed perl 5.6.1. the > details > > of machine is as follows > > > > SunOS MARS 5.9 Generic_118558-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440 > > > > Now I want to install perl 5.8.8 in this machine. Since the machine is a > > production server I need to very careful about the upgradation of perl. > > Now > > my question if i want to upgrade to perl 5.8.8 is there any chance of > data > > loss and how do I upgrade it i.e. from 5.6.1 to 5.8.8 ? what are the > steps > > for this upgradation procedure ??? > > > > Thanks & Regards in advance > > Anirban Adhikary. > > > > > > -- > Eko Budiharto >
