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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
