On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:13 AM, DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote: > As far as I understand the discussion it is necessary to reinstall all > modules which are not part of the cygwin packages.
Not all old modules, just the old site_perl/i686-cygwin XS modules. The others can happily co-exist. You can also install both perl versions in parallel. The only conflict is /usr/bin/perl.exe and some scripts in /usr/bin/ Simply install one and then manually extract the other favored perl, like tar xfj ...down/http..../release/perl/perl-5.10.1-5.tar.bz2 -C / > Because this will consume a lot of time (rebase manually after every step > etc. ) I want to keep the old Version of perl for some time. A full reinstall of my ~1000 cpan modules required 2x perlrebase. Not that much hurt as with 5.10. > Is there a way to prevent setup.exe installs the new version permanently . Hack your /etc/setup/installed.db and fake the latest perl version. Be sure to have a backup patch. grep perl.*5.10.1 /etc/setup/installed.db -- Reini Urban http://cpanel.net/ http://www.perl-compiler.org/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
