Hmm, pretty convencing.
:)
Thanks!


Best,

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Platform Independent Linux List! 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Shawn McMahon
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 1:09 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) 
> or string at 
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/Scalar/Util.pm line 30
> 
> On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 01:04:41PM +0200, Arthur Sherman said:
> > 
> > I wish I knew how to revert to previous module in CPAN.
> > Tried once figure it out and couldn't find anything useful.
> 
> This doesn't help you, but for the peanut gallery:
> 
> This is why you shouldn't bypass your packaging system.  
> Before updating
> anything, a better idea is:
> 
> 1) Use "rpm -qf" to find out what package owns the file.
> 2) Download source for that package.
> 3) Download source for what you want to add.
> 4) Create a new package containing your additions.
> 5) Configure the package manager not to automatically upgrade this
> package anymore.
> 6) Expect to spend eternity manually integrating upgrades into your
> system in this manner every time a new version of the base 
> package comes
> out.
> 
> For the special case of perl, here's what we do:
> 
> 1) Leave the "system" perl alone.  We don't add ANY module to it that
> doesn't have an RPM from RedHat, period, and even those rarely.
> 2) Create our own perl and perl-modules packages that install in
> "/opt/perl", and integrate all requested modules into it, 
> updating these
> only as required to serve our development teams.  It contains a whole
> lot of modules, and any time we add a new module we do so by updating
> the perl-modules package.
> 
> As for fixing your problem; you might need to uninstall the 
> perl RPM(s),
> wipe the directory contents, and reinstall.  Be sure to download the
> necessary RPMs first.  If you MUST have that module, at least try to
> find an RPM for it instead of using the cpan updater.  That's a nice
> tool, but it's not suitable for every user's situation, and I'm not
> talking "I'm a power user and you're not, nyah nyah" stuff here; I'm
> really talking "package manager or not".
> 
> 
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