Re: Perl & dpkg
On 25 Dec 1997, William R Ward wrote:
> Does anyone have a solution to this? I'd like to install the basic
> Perl, and am fine with using .deb files for that, but wish to reserve
> the right to upgrade using "perl -MCPAN -e shell" and its nifty
> interface.
>
You could use the equivs package from hamm. You can set it up to "provide"
the packages you have installed using CPAN.pm . You can modify equiv's
controlfile in it's source distribution or change the "Provides:" line in
equiv's paragraph in /var/lib/dpkg/status.
> Also I've noticed that some Perl modules get installed into
> /usr/lib/perl5 (bad!) when I use the 'perl Makefile.PL; make test;
> make install' method, and others into /usr/local/lib/site-perl (good).
> Does anyone here know how to force all Perl modules I install to go in
> /usr/local/lib/site-perl so they won't conflict with the Debian stuff?
>
If the install docs provided by the perl module doesn't say how to do it,
you could always modify the makefile.
Ciao,
Martin
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