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Sat Oct 21 09:42:34 UTC 2006
Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>

On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 19:18 -0500, Travis Northrup wrote:
> Hello Will,
> 
> Thanks for the response Will. I think that I'll include a tidbit about
> that in the document. DAG has an rpm available, but I can also create
> an rpm specifically for this so that CentOS users will have multiple
> download options for Net::SSLeay
> 

This is already in the CentOS extras repo, as it is a requirement for
heartbeat, so no new recompile is required.

All you have to do to find info like this in yum is to do this:

yum provides "Net::SSLeay"

or more correctly

yum provides perl(Net::SSLeay)

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes

> Friday, October 20, 2006, 1:30:42 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > On 20/10/06, Travis Northrup <digitalhype at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>  I don't want to sound like a jerk here, but what does my mentioning
> >>  the availability to install a Perl modules FROM a perl download source
> >>  have anything to do with my question.
> >>
> >>  He mentioned ssl. I told him how he could get it.
> >>
> >>  Now since its "heavily discouraged" maybe you can tell me _why_ its
> >>  discouraged cause I've never had a problem with it myself. Maybe I'm
> >>  missing something that you know and I don't.
> 
> > I suspect it's discouraged because it risks breaking packaging. On an
> > RPM-based system it's generally considered best-practice to stick to
> > RPMs.
> 
> > Sticking with RPMs provides a known stable, consistent, tested
> > environment where interactions between applications and libraries are
> > predictable and reproduceable.
> 
> > Now, it may be that a Perl and CPAN expert knows enough to prevent
> > non-packaged sources from tainting package owned files but not
> > everyone understands what's happening when they install CPAN stuff.
> > Hence "heavily discouraged". That doesn't mean don't do it, it just
> > means be aware of consequences if you do.
> 
> > My £0.02
> 
> > Will.
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