Dave Howorth wrote:
joe wrote:
That's an easy one - perl tarballs are ignorant of your package database, and a cpan install will simply overwrite your existing suse package without hesitation or awareness of the fact. Likewise, rpm is unaware of the cpan installed packages lurking there and will overwrite them in case of conflict.
This shouldn't happen. There is a built-in mechanism to prevent such conflicts. Can you please supply specific details of any packages where this has occurred? What is the package name, Suse and CPAN versions, which files have been overwritten (ls -l would be useful). And which applications were broken as a result?
It's been some months - I don't remember all the packages and versions installed anymore, but I do remember clearly that upon installing some cpan packages my maia mailguard system promptly broke. I was able to get it back up and running only after surgically removing every trace of perl and reinstalling it from rpm packages. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org