With all due respect to the various people, their hard work and associated repos, where is the best place to do a yum install for these two packages below in regards to an internet facing production Centos 4.4 server perl-IO-Zlib perl-Archive-Tar I noticed dag and karan repos appear to have it and my experience and research tells me that using CPAN is not an option for possible problems at times (no disrespect intended) background: spamassassin and sa-update sa-update complains about Can't locate Archive/Tar.pm in @INC etc etc blah research showed that it *appears* they are in fedora core "core" yet evidentally not in the upstream "core"??? thanks and kind regards, - rh -- Robert - Abba Communications Computer & Internet Services (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net
On 11/8/06, R Lists06 <lists06 at abbacomm.net> wrote:> > With all due respect to the various people, their hard work and associated > repos, where is the best place to do a yum install for these two packages > below in regards to an internet facing production Centos 4.4 server > > perl-IO-Zlib > perl-Archive-Tar > > I noticed dag and karan repos appear to have it and my experience and > research tells me that using CPAN is not an option for possible problems at > times (no disrespect intended)Both dag and karan repositories are very reliable. Either one should work fine for your needs, but I would avoid mixing and matching. Pick one repo and use include/exclude in yum to make sure you get updates from the same place so that you don't cause problems later on down the road. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell
On Nov 8, 2006, at 11:09 AM, R Lists06 wrote:> With all due respect to the various people, their hard work and > associated > repos, where is the best place to do a yum install for these two > packages > below in regards to an internet facing production Centos 4.4 server > > perl-IO-Zlib > perl-Archive-Tar > > I noticed dag and karan repos appear to have it and my experience and > research tells me that using CPAN is not an option for possible > problems at > times (no disrespect intended)my first recommendation would be rpmforge.net. http://rpmforge.net/user/packages/perl-IO-Zlib/ http://rpmforge.net/user/packages/perl-Archive-Tar/ if for some reason that won't work for you, there's always cpan2rpm, which will save you some of the pain of dealing directly with CPAN (which i agree is a bad idea on a production server). -steve -- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v