Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3397 mails)

[Scott Leighton <helphand@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

 I know that a lot of people recommend simply doing a 
clean install instead of an upgrade when moving from
one SuSE release to a new one, but I really prefer not
to loose all of the tweaking and settings to the various
config files in /etc so I've always used the upgrade
route.

 The move from 9.2 to 9.3 was a little bumpy for
me (see earlier thread), but the biggest pita I'm
finding (now that the bumps are smoothed over
thanks to help from this list) is the Perl upgrade.

 None of the modules I previously installed via CPAN 
get installed when a newer Perl is installed. That
means that all sorts of things break and stop
working and I find myself chasing around
installing various modules as I find the
problems.

 There has to be a better way. Does anyone
know of a straightforward method to identify
the modules I installed to Perl 5.8.5 and 
then to automatically get them installed
for the newer 5.8.6 that 9.3 uses? I'm thinking
like maybe some kind of script that
could be run.

  Scott

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