Good ideas, fuzzy. Thanks.
fuzzy wrote:
> On Tue, August 26, 2008 11:59 pm, Eric Shubert wrote:
>> Don't use CPAN to update your perl modules.
>
> this would be seconded by just about anyone over on the centos mail
> list...i say this after lurking over there for 2 years. the package
> manager (rpm) has no info on modules installed by the cpan method, so they
> might as well not exist, let alone problems introduced by newer versions
> installed by cpan.
>
> it follows that all perl dependencies for the toaster (introduced as
> required by the current spamassassin, whatever) should have available
> packages in the rpmforge repo to make this as painless as possible. dag
> already builds many perl packages, let him know what else we need.
>
>> <side note> I'm beginning to see that a qtp-function would be nice for
>> handling this (installing the RPMforge yum repo). Wouldn't be too tough to
>> do with a script. Could be run automatically by qtp-newmodel, I suppose.
>> </side note>
>
> If this moves forward, please install the repo as 'enabled=0' then install
> dependencies scripting-wise via 'yum install enablerepo=rpmforge blah blah
> blah'.
>
> even though dag is a developer/contributor over at the centos project and
> rpmforge is deemed safe as a 3rd party repo, most on the list over there
> advise the use of yum-priorities to keep 3rd-party stuff from over-riding
> or overwriting packages from base/update. this is how you keep stable
> centos stable, by keeping it as close to pristine as possible.
>
>> And remember everyone, update your toaster's perl packages using yum and
>> RPMforge, NOT CPAN. ;)
>
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-Eric 'shubes'
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