Re: scripting CPAN installs

["Joseph L. Casale" <jcasale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Hmmm, good point - I could do that.  I've come across several methods
>of checking module versions and none of them seemed "perfect" to me.
>Can you recommend a method?

Well, depends if you are in Perl, or bash, but really something as simple
as:

perl -e 'use HTML::Parser;'
echo $?

Aside from the mess of Perl diag which you can redirect away, you'll get
a 0 or not.

>We don't do auto-updates on production boxes so this is not a concern.
> And yeah, my other alternative would be to do it all via yum instead
>of CPAN, but that would be a massive change to the system I've
>inherited.

Good lord no, I don't either:) But when you "do" update:)
Shame about the inheritance issue, it's not hard to install modules out
of the base location and pull them in, unless you have a mess to change
I guess...
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