On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 19:19, John Fessenden wrote:

> This CPAN installing a new version of perl thing, was a weird annoyance
> (bug?)  that older versions of the CPAN module had, where if a Module
> depended on another module that now shipped with the default install of
> perl, it would insist on installing the newest version of perl.
> 
> Later versions of CPAN would ask you if you wanted to install perl, and
> would happily move on if you didn't want to.

Does perl -MCPAN work *at all* if you have Perl from the RPMs
instead of from a manually-compiled source? 

> You could work around and old version of CPAN by first using
> CPAN to install lastest CPAN module.  (whew!)
> 
>   perl -MCPAN -e 'install CPAN'   # not Bundle::CPAN
> 
> then CPAN would no longer attempt to upgrade perl when you wern't ready.

Neat, thanks.

///Peter



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