Am 17.04.2009 um 05:16 schrieb Mark Pryor: > > > After trying for 2 hours, I ran into 3 brickwall-issues. Like you > found, there are two base perl modules which require newer versions > than that which comes with 5.3. These modules are > File::Temp and Encode (core) > > cpan2rpm can package them OK, but there are fatal transaction check > errors when installing. > > Mr. JV is the author of RT3 and DBIx::SearchBuilder. The > SearchBuilder module also stopped me (briefly) with a dependency on > DBD::Oracle. To grab this from CPAN requires the supporting Orable > Libs. I altered the spec and removed any Oracle depends. > Shouldn't it only have this dependency, if you actually use the Oracle backend? > These 3 issues were enough to cause me to give up. Just compile perl yourself and install it somewhere into /opt or /usr/ local. That's a lesson I learned 5 years ago - while you should work with the distro and not against it, you should also work with the software you want to install and not against it. The other thing I learned back then is that it installs flawlessly on FreeBSD - and FreeBSD doesn't rely on Perl and Python to run the base OS. Rainer