Re: Upgrading Perl linux 5.6 rpm to 5.8.2 source

2004-01-15 Thread drieux
On Jan 14, 2004, at 11:16 AM, Guay Jean-Sébastien wrote: Which I interpreted as "without being forced to reinstall all my modules which are not part of the standard Perl distribution". So you confirm that that isn't possible, and that any modules that contain XS code and which were not part of

RE: Upgrading Perl linux 5.6 rpm to 5.8.2 source

2004-01-14 Thread Guay Jean-Sébastien
Hello drieux, > the upgrade will upgrade and install the > XS compatible for 5.8.X version of the code > for all of the components that are in the RPM. > > any additional perl modules that have an XS component > will need to be re-built and installed. Exactly, that's what I was wondering about..

Re: Upgrading Perl linux 5.6 rpm to 5.8.2 source

2004-01-14 Thread drieux
On Jan 14, 2004, at 10:33 AM, Guay Jean-Sébastien wrote: This should allow you to do an upgrade rather then remove and upgrade. If it's possible to do that (and have it actually work), does that mean that it's only on Windows (with ActiveState Perl) that Perl 5.6 and 5.8 are not binary compatibl

RE: Upgrading Perl linux 5.6 rpm to 5.8.2 source

2004-01-14 Thread Guay Jean-Sébastien
> This should allow you to do an upgrade rather then remove and upgrade. If it's possible to do that (and have it actually work), does that mean that it's only on Windows (with ActiveState Perl) that Perl 5.6 and 5.8 are not binary compatible for XS modules? If not, I would think that simply upgr

Re: Upgrading Perl linux 5.6 rpm to 5.8.2 source

2004-01-14 Thread denis
Have you tried: rpm -ivh perl_rpm_name? This should allow you to do an upgrade rather then remove and upgrade. HTH.. Denis On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Paul Kraus wrote: > On a Linux system how can I remove the 5.6 rpm and then install the 5.8.2 > from source and still maintain dependencies? If somet

Re: Upgrading Perl linux 5.6 rpm to 5.8.2 source

2004-01-13 Thread drieux
On Jan 13, 2004, at 1:02 PM, Paul Kraus wrote: On a Linux system how can I remove the 5.6 rpm and then install the 5.8.2 from source and still maintain dependencies? If something is looking for perl how do I make sure that it upgrades correctly? This is probably a bit odd, but why not skip the p

Upgrading Perl linux 5.6 rpm to 5.8.2 source

2004-01-13 Thread Paul Kraus
On a Linux system how can I remove the 5.6 rpm and then install the 5.8.2 from source and still maintain dependencies? If something is looking for perl how do I make sure that it upgrades correctly? Paul Kraus --- PEL Supply Company Network Administrator --