On 6/2/2011 3:29 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: >> On 6/1/11 8:43 AM, Pat Traynor wrote: >>> See, this is why I really shouldn't be left alone in front of a keyboard. >>> My perl installation is 5.12.3, NOT 5.3.12. Sigh... > On 01.06.11 08:47, Michael Scheidell wrote: >> it should be 'safe' to backup the ../site_perl* and ../lib/perl5* >> libraries, and try to upgrade the perl modules first. newer pm's SHOULD >> work with old SA. > I'm afraid it's not. At least gentoo says that > "Perl 5.12 is not binary compatible with prior releases of Perl." > > That may explain the need of upgrading the whole system. While it might be > possible to stuff new perl (and much of other libraries/packages) to old > fedora, it is apparently not a good idea
That's irrelevant. The latest SA will run just fine on 5.12, so he does not need to upgrade Perl. He may need to upgrade some of the Perl modules, but that should not require any upgrades of Perl itself or any other OS components. -- Bowie
