On Thu, 23 May 2002, Jay Summers wrote:
} Have you set this up on a Raq2? I noticed the install docs said that it
} upgrades some Perl Modules via CPAN. Did you let it do that, or did you run
} perl Install.PL -no_modules? I really want this, but I'm afraid of the
} typical Cobalt gotchas.
I have. What I did on our Cobalts was to create a unique directory
and install all the bells and whistles we added in it. I originally
did this in order to try and insure that we didn't void the warranty
by adding this and that. The thought being that if the server needed
warranty service we'd just delete the directory before we turned the
server over to Cobalt and then restore it from backup when we got it
back. There's plenty of room to spare, for example, on the /home
partition and if one installs all their toys in this manner you
don't have to sweat the gotcha's and you can simply copy the
directory over to other similar servers and they're good to go.
While the purists may not be too fond of this statement,
there's nothing to prevent you from installing whatever you want
where ever you want to put it. Stick another Perl in /home/goodies
and install the modules on it.