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Server Perl Upgrade
Friday November 07, @11:03AM, by Clayton Carter
Subject : software upgrade for db work
from the no-more-archain-perl dept.
Summary :
John S. has requested some updated software on the server.
Text :
> Perl is installed on the server to version 5.005. DBI is
> installed to version 1.21.

A request has been made to upgrade our installation of Perl and DBI. The applicable ports are:

perl-5.8.0_7
p5-DBI-137-1.37
p5-DBD-mysql-2.1026_1

Well, I think that's what we need. I'm still new to this DBI stuff. (Not to mention FreeBSD.)

Clayton

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Re: Server Perl Upgrade
Friday November 07, @11:19AM, by Clayton Carter
> perl-5.8.0_7
> p5-DBI-137-1.37
> p5-DBD-mysql-2.1026_1

And it was subsequently suggested that we NOT use the BSD ports since the CPAN modules will be more up-to-date.

So that would be:

DBI
DBD::mysql

I believe. If we're feeling particularly frisky, we could even try:

DBD::CSV

Clayton

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Re: Server Perl Upgrade
Sunday December 07, @11:02AM, by Ed MacKenty
John would like perl-5.8.0 installed, and I think we should do this. Currently, perl-5.005_03 is installed, which is very old. v5.8.0 has been out for some time and used in production many places (where I work, in RedHat 9, etc). I suspect if we upgrade perl using ports, that's what we'll get. However, I don't know how to check that, or do use ports to do the update.

Can someone who knows FreeBSD ports let me know how this is done? After we have updated perl, I'll get the correct DBI and DBD packages from CPAN.
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Re: Server Perl Upgrade
Friday December 12, @12:57AM, by Clayton Carter
> Can someone who knows FreeBSD ports let me know how this is done? After we have updated perl, I'll get the correct DBI and DBD packages from CPAN.

I was Mr. Productivity tonight. Not only did I install Perl 5.8 (in /usr/local/bin), but I also upgraded DBI, DBD::mysql and DBD::CSV. Theyre also in /usr/local.

Phew. Im going to bed.

Clayton
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