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On Sunday, Sep 22, 2002, at 22:08 US/Pacific, Puneet Kishor wrote: > two odd things I have noticed since clean upgrading to OS X 10.2 > > 1. path settings seem to be changed. one examples -- (1) Dan Kogai's > lifesaving psync sitting under /usr/local/bin is not reachable > anymore. A quick look at setenv shows that my PATH is just > /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin so obviously psync will not be reachable > now from my home directory. Of course, I can add /usr/local/bin to > PATH, but what curious minds want to know is how did this happen? It > worked fine earlier, and I don't recall ever adding /usr/local/bin to > the path... so how did it work earlier? or conversely, why did it > break now? Apple changed the tcsh configuration to be more normal, it shipped in 10.0/.1 with Wilfredo's Sanchezs personal settings. Not really appropriate, now it ships with unix-like defaults. see /usr/share/tcsh/examples for the old config files if you still want to use them. > > 2. cpan did something strange -- I fired up cpan and it promptly > reminded me that I should upgrade cpan itself as well as libnet. I > dutifully upgraded cpan to 1.63 and reloaded, and then asked it to > upgrade libnet. Lo and behold... I see cpan is trying to download 11 > Mb of Perl 5.8.0, not something I asked for. I ctr-c-ed out and it > seems to have installed libnet ok. Could anyone please reassure me > that cpan didn't try to go in and screw around with my stock Apple > Perl 5.6.0 install... that is not something I want at all. This was a but in the older versions of CPAN, upgrade to a recent version of CPAN (*NOT* Bundle::CPAN, just CPAN) and you should then be able to to install stuff happily, at least that is what I recall, the first thing I did with jaguar was build Perl5.8 so... Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (Darwin) iD8DBQE9jrePilk3LUlIL0MRAlNLAJ47S+AoC2IIZkdtx/F2lViusmT64QCfYDQI bIGt8NYsj/6SkGGmB/wynHg= =CAQL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
