[rt-users] Possible to downgrade DB from 3.8 to 3.6?

[John Arends]

CPAN makes me cranky, but trying to package all the perl modules as RPMs 
makes me crankier. It's like wrapping one packaging system around 
another one, and fighting with both of them.

The reality is, every time RHEL updates perl, RT will break. I solve 
this by having an identical test system. I apply the updates, see what 
breaks, and then reinstall the perl modules in question using CPAN.

Once I figure this out, I do the same process on the production RT 
system during a maintenance window. It actually works out pretty well 
now that I am used to this, but it is less than ideal.

RHEL is a major platform, and I'd love it if BestPractical supported it 
in some official way so we don't have these kinds of problems we have to 
work around.

Still, I love RT and praise it to anyone who will listen.

On 12/13/10 11:04 AM, Khusro Jaleel wrote:
> I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place, then. The Redhat people are
> telling me to *avoid* CPAN like the plague, and most people [1] seem to
> have accomplished the install on CentOS systems using a combination of
> packages + CPAN, which is something else that is NOT recommended to do.
>
> I wish Best Practical did come up with their own packages, especially
> for Redhat, it would make things so much easier.
>
> [1] - http://requesttracker.wikia.com/wiki/CentOS5InstallPlusSome