Thanks for all your answers, but I settled for a different solution. It appeared the perl-package was available in the debian-repo, so I can use package{}.
On Aug 17, 5:49 am, Brian Gallew <g...@gallew.org> wrote: > Sorry, when you use Gmail you end up top-posting whether you like it or not. > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Daniel Pittman <dan...@rimspace.net> wrote: > > Brian Gallew <g...@gallew.org> writes: > > > It is always nice if y'all follow the existing quoting style in mails; it > > makes it much less confusing to follow later. > > > > I have to agree with Daniel on this one. While it's annoying to build > > > Solaris (in my case) packages for every CPAN package you want to install, > > > then end result is that I can control the installed version *precisely*. > > > While it may never have been a problem for you, I've been bitten more > > than > > > once by CPAN upgrades that break my software, so "old" systems work while > > > new systems don't. > > > FWIW, at work we gave up on that despite using Debian and having pretty > > good > > support tools to do the job. We settled on packaging all the Perl bits we > > use > > as a single package and landing that everywhere. > > > That gives us a good balance between the two paths, and has worked out well > > to > > date. Plus it keeps system Perl and company Perl separate... > > > Daniel > > > -- > > ✣ Daniel Pittman ✉ dan...@rimspace.net ☎ +61 401 155 > > 707 > > ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Puppet Users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@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-us...@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.