On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Gustafson, Tim wrote:
Except that I use the FreeBSD ports for all my installs and upgrades so that
the proper FreeBSD patches get installed. CPAN tends to corrupt my Perl
modules and break things.
I know about switching back and fourth between the two versions of perl in
FreeBSD. It's just REALLY sloppy and I'd rather not do it, especially since
so many things in the FreeBSD 4.x core system rely on Perl and this is a
production server that handles 40,000+ e-mails and more than a million web
hits per day.
I don't trust CPAN either. We download the source for the modules we
need, compile and install them. We also have several perl trees. We're
using stow to keep them separate yet available. This allows those who
must have the bleeding-edge sw to get their way and others to use
the oldest. Somewhere in the middle is the default version. Yes,
I gotta make sure to set my path when configuring/compiling SA but
it works...
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