On Monday, September 23, 2002, at 03:08 PM, Puneet Kishor wrote:
> two odd things I have noticed since clean upgrading to OS X 10.2
>
> 1. path settings seem to be changed. one examples -- (1) Dan
> Kogai's lifesaving psync sitting under /usr/local/bin is not
> reachable anymore. A quick look at setenv shows that my PATH is
> just /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin so obviously psync will not
> be reachable now from my home directory. Of course, I can add
> /usr/local/bin to PATH, but what curious minds want to know is
> how did this happen? It worked fine earlier, and I don't recall
> ever adding /usr/local/bin to the path... so how did it work
> earlier? or conversely, why did it break now?
In 10.1.5, the file /usr/share/init/tcsh/login (which is
executed at login) contains this:
set path = ( \
~/bin \
/usr/local/bin /usr/bin /bin \
/usr/local/sbin /usr/sbin /sbin \
)
So that must have changed in 10.2.
> 2. cpan did something strange -- I fired up cpan and it
> promptly reminded me that I should upgrade cpan itself as well
> as libnet. I dutifully upgraded cpan to 1.63 and reloaded, and
> then asked it to upgrade libnet. Lo and behold... I see cpan is
> trying to download 11 Mb of Perl 5.8.0, not something I asked
> for.
This is THE MOST ANNOYING thing CPAN does, and although everyone
always *assures* me it's been fixed, it continues to happen.
> I ctr-c-ed out and it seems to have installed libnet ok. Could
> anyone please reassure me that cpan didn't try to go in and
> screw around with my stock Apple Perl 5.6.0 install... that is
> not something I want at all.
That's exactly what it tried to do. It tried to install 5.8.0.
Luckily, since the process takes so long (download, build
install), you probably caught it in time and no harm was done.
-Ken
