AW: problems loading DBD::MySQL

Hi Keith --

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> Von: Keith Thomas [mailto:[email protected]]=20
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. Dezember 2009 21:47
 my only question now is that when I go to the ppm repository=20
> and look, it does not list DBD::mysql, but if I go to the=20
> \Perl\site\lib\DBD\mysql I find a pod and pm file. Am I ok then?
It's an old and unresolved issue that ppm will not pick up any manual =
installations. ppm is all very nice and handy where it works, but =
sometimes it doesn't, and you have to resort to other means (like you =
did). Then ppm will not know about this, but perl itself will: Try=20
perl -MDBD::mysql -e "print $DBD::mysql::VERSION"=20
The next glitch will come up when next time you will be using ppm in =
order to upgrade DBD::mysql (supposing you resolve the firewall =
problem). I guess one could write a "repair script" for the ppm database =
to update it about all the manual changes (probably someone already has =
one this -- I haven't been concerned enough myself).

If you're really concerned about it, there is still one way out:
* make your DBD::mysql as described by you, but do not install
* make ppm
* Take the resulting ppm/ppd files and drop them into some directory =
that will serve as your local ppm repository
* direct ppm (the programme) to your local repository instead of one of =
those on the internet
* install

\Gisbert

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