In general, installing binary packages from different distributions is a Bad Idea, as it seems you learned through your sendmail experience. One method of getting woody versions of packages on your potato system is to include relevant deb-src lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list and download woody source packages. Then you can try to build the package with dpkg-buildpackage. It has worked for me in the past with minor things; but I've never tried with a behemoth like sendmail. My guess is that you should probably be okay with this method for perl, but I haven't tried it, so proceed at your own risk. I hope you have a good reason to be doing it; by tweaking it you risk turning your "stable" distribution into "not-so-stable." Good luck. Vineet * Jay Latham (deltamud@telocity.com) [010629 12:25]: > Is it possible to upgrade my stock potato version of perl to the > 5.6 version supplied in woody without completely crashing my > system. The reason I ask is, I tried this with sendmail and had > a hell of time getting my e-mail back even after I went back to > the potato version. The only good thing that came out of that > was that I'm now fairly proficient in setting up email using > sendmail, procmail, fetchmail, and Mutt. ;-) > > Thanks, > -- > > Jay Latham > > Beer is proof God loves us and > wants us to be happy! > > Benjamin Franklin > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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