Quoting Steffen Schwigon <s...@renormalist.net>:
Bruno Costacurta <tec...@costacurta.org> writes:
cpan[3]> upgrade
..
Running install for module 'Socket'
The most recent version "1.94" of the module "Socket"
is part of the perl-5.13.11 distribution. To install that, you need to run
[…]
Thanks for clarification and help.
To explain what happens:
It tries to install the latest version which for core-modules is only
contained in the Perl distribution itself. The warning tries to avoid
you install a whole new Perl for that.
Follow-up meditation:
- You can probably ignore the warnings if “upgrade” installs anything
else correctly. Not aesthetically pleasing, I know…
As I mentioned, apparently all modules got this error.
- Strange that it doesn't find a Perl 5.14 - maybe your CPAN mirror
isn't up to date. Anyway, you don't want to install any another Perl
on “upgrade” even if it would be 5.14.
- It can also happen with non-core modules on pathological cases with
old-but-indexed vs. newer-but-no-longer-indexed modules. DBIx::Class
used to contains something like that during v0.5xx.
I'm using Debian Lenny : I suspect there is a conflict in my system
between perl installed from Debian package and CPAN installed from
Internet.
I currently use perl v5.10 via Debian packages.
I'll post an email about this on a Debian mailing list.
Bye,
Bruno
