[rt-users] RT3/perl problem

[Greg.Hering at bench.com]

This may not be the *BEST* place for this, but... for a fresh RT install;

Are there people who run 'make fixdeps' and it works without ANY bugs?

I have had some packages that I can't install when trying to load the recommended updates (i.e. cpan> r)

I'm talking about uninstalling perl 5.005, which comes with my system, installing perl 5.8.0 and then trying to get all the latest packages.  After the install, run 'perl -MCPAN -eshell' and configure it for desired CPAN archives and local make and ftp utils, etc.  Then, I think it suggests you update the cpan module right away, which I do.  Then you ask for it's recommendations and start updating.  Is that too aggressive?

DBI, DBD and Apache bundles specifically HAVE to be installed and the non-total-perl-guru (me, et-others) cringe in dismay when the packages fail 'make test'.  The only general fix I've seen is making sure the LANG=en_US.

If this is widespread, maybe a list of known good packages, and a method to get those other than the default CPAN install, which gets the latest, should be developed.  

What about archiving known goodies on a pub ftp site just for RT users?  

What about a list of packages that fail testing but it's OK to force install.

Any thoughts (besides 'stop whining'!)?

Sincerely,

Greg



Gregory L. Hering
(256) 722-6420
4807 Bradford Dr
Benchmark Electronics, Inc.
Hunvtsville, Al 35805
 

-----Original Message-----
From: darren chamberlain [mailto:darren at boston.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 2:31 PM
To: rt-users at lists.fsck.com
Subject: Re: [rt-users] RT3/perl problem

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* Vivek Khera <khera at kcilink.com> [2003-05-15 15:21]:
> >>>>> "MvE" == Michael van Elst <mlelstv at dev.de.cw.net> writes:
> MvE> The \p pattern requires perl-5.8.
> 
> Ouch!  And Text::Autoformat only requires 5.005 in the file itself.
> Has anyone filed a bug report with the author on that?

  <https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Text-Autoformat>

(darren)

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