[CentOS] http://www.net-dns.org/ and perl-Net-DNS-0.48-1 upgrade direction needed

Jim Perrin

jperrin at gmail.com
Fri Jan 19 02:05:42 UTC 2007


> Personally, I wouldn't be leery of upgrading Net::DNS via CPAN at all.
> It's probably
> better than upgrading perl modules with yum or apt-get, since CPAN is
> pretty much
> the authority on perl in general.

As stated earlier, he is right to be leery, as updating via CPAN does
*NOT* inform rpm of the changes. This means that anything which
requires the perl-Net-DNS package will fail with dependency errors.

Also, while CPAN may be the authority on perl, they are not the
authority on PACKAGED perl, as it ships with any managed distribution.
Your methods show you to be working against  the benefits of package
management, and therefore, administrative sanity.

You can just as surely get apache from apache.org, but why duplicate
the effort when the distribution has taken the time to test, patch,
secure and configure the software for you. Unless there's a compelling
and convincing reason (and I have yet to see one) you should ALWAYS
use your distribution's package management scheme. This applies to all
distributions, and manners of package management with the exception of
slackware for obvious reasons.


-- 
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell



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