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

[Gary Greene]

On 13/12/10 9:43 AM, "John Arends" <jarends at illinois.edu> wrote:
> 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.
> 

This is why I use cpan2rpm every time.

> 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.

This ALSO can be avoided, if you know how to package your cpan2rpm packages
in site instead of vendor locations. This allows that NONE of the issues
that are endemic of RHEL's busted Perl packaging to cause long term
headaches for me.
 
> 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
> 
> 

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