On Tue, 2005-10-05 at 08:49 +1000, Voytek wrote:
> what's the simplest way to keep my various Perl modules up to date ...?

Not disrespecting the replies about how to update via CPAN, I thought I
should mention that several Linux distros provide packages around perl
modules
For example, modules Perl::DBI and Perl::DBD::MySQL are packaged as
follows:

  Fedora           Debian              Gentoo

  perl-DBI         libdbi-perl         dev-perl/DBI
  perl-DBD-MySQL   libdbd-mysql-perl   dev-perl/DBD-mysql

If, perchance, your requirement included only those modules that were
under package control by your distro vendor, (and assuming of course
that sufficiently new versions of said modules are packaged), then you
could rely on your OS's package tools to upgrade your perl modules.

Incidentally, whether you upgrade by hand, or whether you upgrade via
package tools doesn't change the fact that you remain responsible for QA
testing your application on any new environment. That goes with the
territory. There's nothing holy about manually building things.

AfC
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