Re: perl system integrity?

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 12:52:15PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Does any means exist within perl to detect that a perl base installed on a
> system is completely intact?  Perl base is perl binary and all support
> packages that binary uses before cpan or cpanp is run.  The perl base is put
> on newly installed systems.
> I am interested in this since sometimes system updates break perl and steps
> have to be taken to clear the breakage then repair steps need to be taken.
> If a means exists to let a user know this list of packages came with your
> installed system and are now missing perl system repairs could be expedited.
> Aside from perl, such capabilities added to other base systems like python
> for one example could help out repairing those other systems too.
> 

There's more than one way to do it.

Off the top of my head:

# apt install --reinstall perl-base

Or the same for perl and perl-modules-5.24 later on.

This should never be broken.

If you are adding packages via cpan, make sure you have
siteprefix, sitelib and sitearch defined to be in /usr/local/,
so you can clear those out without affecting perl-base or perl.

There's a Debian Perl list, of course.

-dsr-