[CentOS] Cleaning up some problems

Kwan Lowe kwan.lowe at gmail.com
Mon Jul 27 14:14:01 UTC 2009


>  BTW, what is wrong with using
> cpan?  I thought they were the most up to date of the perl modules
> available, but I rarely ever see anything perl related in a yum
> update... maybe I just missed it. <sigh>

Hello Sam:
    I can't answer the parent question, but I do use CPAN modules
quite often.  The main difference is that I always convert them to RPM
first using the cpan2rpm utility. It takes a few extra steps, but I've
found that it makes upgrades and troubleshooting a lot easier.



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