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

Quoting Steffen Schwigon <[email protected]>:

> 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 r=
un
>> [=E2=80=A6]
>> Thanks for clarification and help.
>
> To explain what happens:
> 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 insta=
lls anything
>   else correctly. Not aesthetically pleasing, I know=E2=80=A6

As I mentioned, apparently all modules got this error.

>
> - 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.
>

I'm using Debian Lenny : I suspect there is a conflict in my system  
between perl installed from Debian package and CPAN installed from  
Internet.
I currently use perl v5.10 via Debian packages.

I'll post an email about this on a Debian mailing list.

Bye,
Bruno