Hi, On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, maarten van den Berg wrote:
> On Friday 07 November 2003 22:34, David B Funk wrote: > > IIRC, this was due to a bug in one of the versions of CPAN. > > Try updating your CPAN > > I already doubted this, so thanks a lot for that info. However, I'm kinda > stuck since install Bundle::CPAN _also_ eventually tries to upgrade perl. ;-| > I'll look into updating it manually but that is a LOT of work... :-(( Update just CPAN manually. Recent versions of CPAN (>1.48?, 1.52) don't try to update core perl. That problem arises when installed libraries like Storable or Data::Dumper which were originally distributed separately are suddenly incorporated into core perl. Older versions of CPAN would try to update the module, find the most recent version of the module was the core perl distribution, and try to download and install that. What's worse is that older versions of CPAN would automatically chase down prerequisite modules so you might use CPAN to install an innocuous module which relied on Storable and CPAN would try to upgrade core perl. Gruesome. This was a big problem 2-3 years ago but unless you're running an old version of perl (5.6.0? or earlier), this shouldn't be an issue today. Regardless, manually upgrading CPAN prevents this problem no matter how old your version of perl is. Solaris users have a whole different set of stupid problems due to Sun's typically bad packaging & configuration of free software. hth, -- Bob ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: ApacheCon 2003, 16-19 November in Las Vegas. Learn firsthand the latest developments in Apache, PHP, Perl, XML, Java, MySQL, WebDAV, and more! http://www.apachecon.com/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
