On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 06:25:48PM -0500, Paul Baker wrote: > > Yeah it *should* be painless. Unfortuneately, we are using our own > compiled apache, mod*, mysql, and a few other things in /usr/local. As > part of the upgrade to woody though I want to start using only Debian > versions of software. So there is a bit of extra testing/configuring > involved to make that work. We also were using our own version of perl > 5.6.1 in /usr/local. Want to start using Debian's 5.6.1. This also means > that any locally installed CPAN modules will be in the wrong place to > work with that perl, so there is further work involved in making sure > that all the perl modules we are using get installed from woody, and if > not, that we get them from sid, or make them ourselves.
I've found all the CPAN modules I have needed exist in woody, but sometimes you need to be creative in figuring out the package name to look for, although 'apt-cache search' helps a lot. If you can't find a module you need, the dh-make-perl package automates the process for packaging a module. Bob Nielsen
