Hi all,
I'm confused. (Not new, some might say)
What exactly does/should 'g-cpan -u' do? I was under the impression that
it would check all g-cpan installed perl modules and install newer
versions (if they exist).
So, why does the following happen:
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thea ~ # g-cpan -u IO
* g-cpan: Looking for IO...
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata
Database was generated on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:49:13 GMT
* g-cpan: Checking ebuild for 'IO': IO
Running make for G/GB/GBARR/IO-1.22.tar.gz
*snip*
Manifying blib/man3/IO::File.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/IO::Socket::UNIX.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/IO.3pm
/usr/bin/make -- OK
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> Auto-cleaning packages ...
>>> No outdated packages were found on your system.
* GNU info directory index is up-to-date.
thea ~ # perl -MIO -e 'print IO->VERSION(), qq[\n];'
1.22
thea ~ # g-cpan -u IO
* g-cpan: Looking for IO...
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata
Database was generated on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:49:13 GMT
* g-cpan: Checking ebuild for 'IO': IO
Running make for G/GB/GBARR/IO-1.22.tar.gz
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok
*snip*
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OK, so I upgrade IO, is appears to install successfully. I check what
version of IO perl thinks I have installed.
So, just to be sure, I tell g-cpan to upgrade IO. It then 'upgrades'
from 1.22 to 1.22.
Erm.
I'm confused.
It seems to be the same or similar with 'g-cpan -u' to try to upgrade
everything.
I'm not even sure if 'g-cpan -u' does anything or not.
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