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

[John Arends]

On Dec 13, 2010, at 6:06 PM, Gary Greene wrote:

> 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.


Do you know of a guide that explains how to do this?