On Tuesday, February 5, 2002, at 01:11 PM, Jonathan Baumgartner wrote:
> On 2/4/02 11:29 PM, "Ken Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've never in all my years of Perl programming (and installing) ever >> had >> to run h2ph manually. I was under the impression that one never needed >> to run it anymore, but maybe I've just never been in that situation. > > I read something that said it was a good idea. Of course now I can't > remember where I read that. It sounds like the effects weren't great. I still don't know what you did, but it looks like it wasn't the right thing. > >> Maybe explain what you're trying to do, and what steps you've taken to >> try to accomplish it? > > I'm trying to get demime to work with majordomo. demime is a Perl > script, > which requires some packages which I downloaded via CPAN. All that went > smoothly, except that now I'm getting these h2ph errors when I try to > run > demime. So you didn't issue any h2ph commands? > What I'd like to know is if there's a way to undo the h2ph damage that > I've > incurred on my Perl installation. CPAN had no problems with the > packages I > installed, so I think everything else is fine. You could download a fresh copy of perl 5.6 and install it, or take this opportunity to upgrade to 5.6.1. I don't know of any way to just 'revert' or something. This, and not disk failure, is the main reason regular backups are so essential. -Ken
