[Zeffie-Users] Re: Zeffie-Users Digest, Vol 20, Issue 3

[Craig Dewick]

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Zeffie-Users-request at zeffie.net wrote:

>> Is there a way to upgrade the main Perl installation on a Raq4 to
>> something more up to date than 5.005? I've got perl 5.8.7 built and
>> installed in /usr/local on my Raq4, but none of the main system
>> applications use it and installing SpamAssassin 3.1.0 fails because of
>> missing things in 5.005.. 8-)
>
> rpm -Uvh --prefix=/home/opt
> ftp://www.zeffie.com/Active/ActivePerl-5.8.7.815-i686-linux-2.2.17-gcc-211909.rpm
>
> it will install as /opt/bin/perl

Which is more or less exactly the same as the native build I did which is 
installed in /usr/local - I want to completely replace the perl 5.005 
installation which is part of the standard OS package.

I don't think I used CPAN to install 5.8.7, but I might try that too if 
the server doesn't run out of memory during the build.

>> Is the whole GUI on the server tied into specific features of perl 5.005?
>> What stops a Perl upgrade from working when I specify 'y' to the question
>> about whether to link /usr/local/bin/perl to /usr/bin/perl? Last time I
>> tried that the installation failed during the final phase where all the
>> files are copied into their new locations but it's quite a while ago and
>> I'm not sure what the actual error was now.
>
> ftp://www.zeffie.com/zeffie/RaQ4/RaQ4-ActivePerlUsrBinPerl-1.0.pkg
>
> there is a ActivePerl pkg in the same dir but I think it moves the files
> around instead of using the --prefix option so I don't like it as much...

Ah ok well I might avoid it then.

> my next release of php will include fixed support for gettext...  it's
> broken in this version but there might be a fixed version somewhere...
> oh.. like here
> ftp://www.zeffie.com/zeffie/RaQ4/testrpms/

Ok ta will look at that.

Craig.

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