Assuming cPanel's Perl isn't too "special" you might just grab the CentOS SRPM, tweak the dependencies so it will install, give it a custom version number and rebuild. You would then use Yum's version pinning module to block any patches for that specific package to avoid future issues. I totally understand the "just make it work" idea, but if you do that this system will always be broken. Eventually I find the broken ones come back and bite me...
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Jeffrey Ollie <j...@ocjtech.us> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:33 AM, jcbollinger <john.bollin...@stjude.org> > wrote: > > > > On Sep 27, 11:13 am, Aaron Grewell <aaron.grew...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> We're not using CPAN. Modules are installed as RPMs in our environment. > > > > As it should be on an RPM-based distro. > > Yes, I wish it could be so... Unfortunately the one system that I > need this for is running cPanel on a CentOS 5 system. cPanel installs > its own custom Perl (as well as many other packages, including Ruby so > I have to install Puppet and Facter via GEM rather than RPMs). I'm > trying to get munin installed on this system so that I can monitor the > system. Since cPanel installed a custom Perl the CentOS Perl module > RPMs won't install. > > > I strongly recommend installing software only via the system's native > > package manager. If you violate that by installing Perl itself some > > other way (e.g. manually), then anything goes for that Perl > > installation (or Ruby, Python, ...), but if you are using the system's > > Perl then you should use the system's Perl packages. If you need Perl > > modules not available pre-packaged then package them yourself; it's > > not that hard, especially if they are already available from CPAN. > > > > Doing otherwise introduces a significant risk of incompatibilities > > arising and even your Perl modules being mangled, plus it makes > > management more than twice as hard. > > I totally agree, but since I can't get rid of cPanel and I don't want > to go to the trouble of building RPMs for just one system I'm kinda > stuck doing it the "wrong" way. > > -- > Jeff Ollie > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
