I donīt understand your point (or expirience). For me, perl is just a interpretated programing languagues that is developed independent of RH, Suse,Conectiva...
I whant to run ISPman, that use LDAP to hold ISP data and perl to mantain that information. This project doesnīt presume that perl comes from distr A, B or C (and I think that noone should do a propram in any language presuming that the interpreter/compiler has been bundled by A, B or C). I thought that being able to use the most up to date version of perl should avoid bug or security problems corrected in newer versions (while correct scripts should further run as the language syntax and standarts should not change). If I understand right you worries that some tasks of RH7.3 depends specificaly on his perl distribution and changing /usr/bin/perl could render to problems. Eaven I could not think where this can happen (I thought also I could upgrade perl from the developers site independent if RH upgrades), presuming this problems can happen with som script from RH, could I at least make the scripts from ISPman use OpenPKG perl ? If this sounds resonable could you point me out how to change the execution of the main ISPman script (that invokes all other) to corretly prepare the environment for OpenPKG ? Thanks, Alex Citando Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Aug 05, 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I'm using linux too (but relative old RH 7.3) and I thought using OpenPKG > >wersions of softwares would give me a longer updated live. If my thinking is > >correct, I would like to use OpenPKG version of perl and not the RH73 one. > > That's probably a Bad Idea(tm) as RH 7.3 may well have things that depend > on their particular version of perl and its associated modules. One of the > major advantages of OpenPKG is that the OpenPKG instance(s) are independent > of the vendor's underlying packaging system and other installed software. > I have systems running OpenPKG Release 2.0 under Caldera eDesktop 2.4 which > is about the same vintage as RH 7.3 with good results. > > Leave the RH stuff alone, and use OpenPKG for everthing else. Typically I > set systems up so that root logins don't have the OpenPKG environment set > by default to avoid problems with the vendor's maintenance scripts and > updates. I have to manually execute a command that invokes the OpenPKG > eval when logged in as root. This is less of a problem since OpenPKG > Release 2.0 removed ``rpm'' from the PATH, but there are still potential > problems if one has the OpenPKG executables in the PATH before the default > system directories. > > >Could I write a small script that I name /usr/bin/perl with something like: > > > >#/bin/sh > > > >if [ OPKG-ENV_NOT_SET ]; then > > /opkg/etc/rc --eval all env > >fi > > > >/opkg/bin/perl $* > > > > > > > >Also I don't know how to check if OPKG_ENV_NOT_SET. Should grabing opkg in > $PATH > >be enouth ? > > > > > >Thanks, > > > >Alex > > > >Citando Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> On Thu, Aug 05, 2004, Alexander Belck wrote: > >> >Some perl scripts use #!/usr/bin/perl > >> > > >> >Could I just symlink ln -s /opkg/bin/perl /usr/bin/ ? > >> > >> I've done this with links to /usr/local/bin/perl with reasonable > >> success. Most of the systems we use already have /usr/bin/perl > >> (e.g. they're Linux). > >> > >> >If the perl script is executed by a user that DO NOT have previosly run > >> > > >> >/opkg/etc/rc --evall all env > >> > >> This depends on whether the perl scripts make system() calls that depend > on > >> the PATH that's set (and spelling --eval correctly :-). Most of the > >> scripts I write check to see if the OpenPKG environment has been set, and > >> if it hasn't, they set it explicitly. > >> > >> Bill > >> -- > >> INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC > >> UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way > >> FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) > 236-1676 > >> URL: http://www.celestial.com/ > >> > >> When only cops have guns, it's called a ``police state''. > >> -- Claire Wolfe, "101 Things To Do Until The Revolution" > >> ______________________________________________________________________ > >> The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org > >> User Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > > > > > > > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------- > >This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > >______________________________________________________________________ > >The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org > >User Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > Bill > -- > INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC > UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. 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