Re: 'upgrade' returns 'install seems impossible'.

Bruno Costacurta <[email protected]> writes:
> cpan[3]> upgrade
> ..
> Running install for module 'Socket'
> The most recent version "1.94" of the module "Socket"
> is part of the perl-5.13.11 distribution. To install that, you need to run
> [=E2=80=A6]
> Thanks for clarification and help.

To explain what happens:=20
It tries to install the latest version which for core-modules is only
contained in the Perl distribution itself. The warning tries to avoid
you install a whole new Perl for that.

Follow-up meditation:

- You can probably ignore the warnings if =E2=80=9Cupgrade=E2=80=9D install=
s anything
  else correctly. Not aesthetically pleasing, I know=E2=80=A6

- Strange that it doesn't find a Perl 5.14 - maybe your CPAN mirror
  isn't up to date. Anyway, you don't want to install any another Perl
  on =E2=80=9Cupgrade=E2=80=9D even if it would be 5.14.

- It can also happen with non-core modules on pathological cases with
  old-but-indexed vs. newer-but-no-longer-indexed modules. DBIx::Class
  used to contains something like that during v0.5xx.

Kind regards,
Steffen=20
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Steffen Schwigon <[email protected]>
Dresden Perl Mongers <http://dresden-pm.org/>