On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 12:25:14AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-29 23:30:31 -0500]: > > okay, apt-get is wonderful and all that -- but when sticking > > with a tried-and-true potato setup, it's hard to get feature > > updates without some extra-apt activity... > > Wait, wait, wait. Did you say "sticking with a tried-and-true potato" > and "features updates" in the same sentence? Uh, excuse me? Shock, > horror, amazement! Stunned silence. > > Living on CPAN is almost equivalent to living on unstable. If you > feel CPAN unstable is good, why not Debian unstable? To my way of > thinking that is an inconsistent viewpoint.
yes, there are multiple personalities taking liberties here (cut it out! let him talk!) so bear with me... :) and what i (we) meant by feature upgrades was the security patches, mostly. > > perl -MCPAN -e shell > > > install Bundle::HTML::Mason > > [...] > > is there a quickie-like fix without having to do a full to-woody > > upgrade? :( i'd like to have a semi-modern HTML::Mason and > > apache-perl, without having to overhaul the whole schlabotnik... > > Okay, I am getting over my stunned shock and amazement and what I > think I see that only for perl you want the latest and greatest always > but you don't want an update for anything else, not even to go from > potato to woody? > > Me? I would probably 'apt-get source libhtml-mason-perl' and then > 'debuild -uc -us' and create my own deb packages of the modules I > needed with the current perl instead of using the CPAN install. That > way the package manager will know about everything that is installed > and can still manage dependencies properly. i knew there had to be a Debian Way. not knowing what to look for, it's hard to find -- that is, without this debian-user e-list. thanks! -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 2.2; Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #14 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : What's a RUNLEVEL? It's simply a big-time setting group; runlevel 2 might have a full-blown web server plus X running, and runlevel 3 might be ssh-only, for secure logins. Check /etc/inittab (and /etc/rc<RUNLEVEL>.d/*) for details on how yours are set up. And try "man runlevel". Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]