upgrading to perl-5.8.8-4
Brian Dessent
brian@dessent.net
Wed Sep 10 06:28:00 GMT 2008
Rob wrote:
> 1. Why is /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl not listed on 5.8.8 ?
Because having an unversioned directory in @INC was a mistake that was
corrected.
> 2. why are there "duplicate" entries for:
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8
vendor_perl contains modules that ship with perl from the packager.
site_perl contains modules that were locally installed from CPAN.
> 3. Even though /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/cygwin and
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8 are listed in @INC,
> the /lib/perl5/site_perl directory does not get created when the package is
> installed and is missing.
Then it sounds like you've not installed anything from CPAN. It should
be created and populated the first time you do that.
Brian
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