On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, john z wrote: > tks. > at least one part of the mystery is solved. > when i installed perl 5.8.4 with the .8 distribution from randy, i deleted > the old perl and apache2 directories so it would be fresh. and yes (as > verified on another install on a different pc), apache 2.57 gets > introduced. this happens (no surprise) to correspond to the version of > apache on the mod-list for the distribution. > > but when i looked at the asp.pm file, it was saying 2.55 and got me making > a few more gray hairs. my memory was delete perl/ install. how did it > revert to 2.55.... hummm. it seems the after i put up a distribution, i > have to manually load 12 or so other perl modules. i could have used ppm > and did an install Apache-ASP. as a test i tired that and to my surprise, > when you update asp with ppm, it reverts to 2.55. of course, at that point > neither verify --upgrade or install will force in 2.57 under ppm 2.1.6. > > most of the time it seems when i run ppm/ verify and get a message about > update available, a ppm/verify --upgrade tends to simply give me a message > that the version is already up-to-date.
That does clear things up ... When you first install the binary, Apache-ASP isn't registered with ppm, and so ppm is quite happy to update/install it initially. Usually ppm is configured with the ActiveState repository listed first, which at this time (for ActivePerl 8xx) has version 2.55 of Apache-ASP (it doesn't have 2.57, the latest, as apparently some tests failed either for it or for one of it's prerequisites, and ActiveState's automated build system won't put up a ppm package under these circumstances). Our repository at http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/ does have version 2.57 of Apache-ASP - within the ppm shell, adding a repository with location http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/cgi-bin/ppmserver?urn:/PPMServer58 will enable access to this, by which you should be able to install version 2.57 via ppm. There may be a problem with the ppm utility (version 2.1.6) in the Perl/Apache binary distribution with upgrading (I've also noticed that sometimes with ppm version 3) - what you could do is, within the ppm shell, uninstall Apache-ASP, and then install it again, making sure to specify which version you want installed if there's multiple ones available. -- best regards, randy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
