On 04/05 11:04 , Saturn2888 wrote: > How would I cpan install this one? If at all possible I would avoid cpan. It works well enough for developers, but any future/other administrators of the machine will hate you for using it.
If you install all your software with packages (dpkg/rpm), upgrading and checking for patches is generally a matter of 'apt-get update; apt-get upgrade' (or whatever the command is in the tool you use other than 'apt'). If you install software from source, there's no package management. Therefore you won't know if there's a security patch for that piece of software; you won't know what you have installed (which makes it harder to replicate your configuration); and you might end up clobbering software installed from source with software installed from a package (which leads to various strange behaviors at times). So if at all possible, for the sake of your future sanity and the sanity of anyone else who has to administrate the machine in question, please install from a package. If it's absolutely necessary to get a version of some software that isn't packaged, it's not that hard to learn how to build a package for yourself. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
