Re: CPAN updating Perl version

2001-06-15 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 08:22:48PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > will trillich wrote: > > care to elaborate for us ignorami what exactly dh-make-perl > > is, and where to get it? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>ssh auric.debian.org madison dh-make-perl > dh-make-perl |0.6 | testing | source, all

Re: CPAN updating Perl version

2001-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
will trillich wrote: > care to elaborate for us ignorami what exactly dh-make-perl > is, and where to get it? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>ssh auric.debian.org madison dh-make-perl dh-make-perl |0.6 | testing | source, all dh-make-perl |0.8 | unstable | source, all -- see shy j

Re: CPAN updating Perl version

2001-06-14 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 02:18:33PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > It's generally a much better idea to install the debian package if it is > available. > If the module is not packaged (about 270 are), the next best thing is to > use the dh-make-perl, which can build debian packages on the fly out of >

Re: CPAN updating Perl version

2001-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
Randall Hansen wrote: > This all started so simply - I just wanted the mysql DBI module. So I > fired up CPAN for the first time (perl -MCPAN -e shell) It's generally a much better idea to install the debian package if it is available. Is this it? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>apt-cache search mysql dbi li

Re: CPAN updating Perl version

2001-06-14 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Hmm this raises another similar issue. Xemacs has its own packaging system that lets you download the latest elisp packages does anyone know the implications of this with apt ? Pat