[CentOS] an rpm howto question

Thu Jun 30 16:46:22 UTC 2005
Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>

On 6/29/05 2:21 PM, Nielsen, Steve wrote:
> I am in a precarious spot....
> 
> I run centos 4.0. I upgraded my mod_perl RPM to mod_perl 2.0.1.
> CGI.pm 3.10 (3.05 comes with centos 4.0) fixes some namespace issues
> with mod_perl vs mod_perl 2.0.1. I need to upgrade to it to 3.10. Yet
> that file belongs to the perl rpm that comes with centos.
> 
> What do people generally do in this type of situation?

For Perl, I just do a complete build (hopefully scripted!) into 
/usr/local and manage it with CPAN. There are some packages, like RT, 
that require so many additional modules that it's just easier to 
maintain a local perl than it is to work with the system-installed 
version. So standard scripts can still reference /usr/bin/perl, but 
scripts with extensive local dependencies use /usr/local/bin/perl.

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