Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-de (5264 mails)

["Dr.med. Henryk Bochmann" <bochmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Frank Ridderbusch (frank.ridderbusch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) [010621 13:18]:
> By simply installing, you get a mix of old and new perl. You can't
> remove the old perl package, since there are dependencies to for
> instance mod_perl.
> 
> The patch, which is applied by SuSE is about 32KB. If you want to do
> this half way correct, you need to apply this patch, with possibly tons
> of rejects. The fixing lots of things manually.
> 
> And what about the additionally installed modules? These are currently
> installed in /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/. This would be
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/ for the next version. Therefore you
> have to reinstall possibly many modules.
> 
> I have been there and I tell you, this is much work.
> 

I can imagine. Today, I got myself a list of all perl modules installed
on the machine via rpm and downloaded them from CPAN. I got myself 5.6.1,
apache 1.3.20 and modperl 1.25.

It appears that I'll have to install perl 5.6.1, then the perl modules
(which in turn require other modules for compilation, and even openssh
include files, grr). After that, I'll have to recompile apache with
mod_perl. Phew. Make sure to install into /usr, not /usr/local, to
maintain Suse's path concept, put the mod_perl enabled httpd where
Suse's httpd was and strip httpd.conf of modules. Anything I missed?

Regards,
Henryk