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peter pilsl
I'm sorry if this is a FAQ. I searched the docs and did not find any
satisfying answer.
When upgrading my perl, is it possible to upgrade without need to remake
all my thousends selfinstalled modules that depend on each other and
will take me a day to find and reinstall.
I've asked myself this question very often (every time I wanted to upgrade)
In my actual case I only want to upgrade from 5.8.5 to 5.8.6 to get some
of the utf8-bugfixes. Is it possible just to set a symlink from
perl5/site_perl/5.8.5 to perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 ?
As far as I understand under perl/site_perl/VERSION are all the
user-installed modules and under perl/VERSION are all the core-modules
that comes with perl itself.
What can happen on such a minor upgrade (5.8.6 is only a bugfix to
5.8.5)? What about major upgrades (from 5.6.x to 5.8.x) ?
I dont ask about upgrade from 5.x to 6.x, cause this will be a bigger
project then, needing a lot of brain-upgrade as well
Any short tips and deep-insight-explanations are highly appretiated,
thnx,
peter
satisfying answer.
When upgrading my perl, is it possible to upgrade without need to remake
all my thousends selfinstalled modules that depend on each other and
will take me a day to find and reinstall.
I've asked myself this question very often (every time I wanted to upgrade)
In my actual case I only want to upgrade from 5.8.5 to 5.8.6 to get some
of the utf8-bugfixes. Is it possible just to set a symlink from
perl5/site_perl/5.8.5 to perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 ?
As far as I understand under perl/site_perl/VERSION are all the
user-installed modules and under perl/VERSION are all the core-modules
that comes with perl itself.
What can happen on such a minor upgrade (5.8.6 is only a bugfix to
5.8.5)? What about major upgrades (from 5.6.x to 5.8.x) ?
I dont ask about upgrade from 5.x to 6.x, cause this will be a bigger
project then, needing a lot of brain-upgrade as well
Any short tips and deep-insight-explanations are highly appretiated,
thnx,
peter