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My condolences... been there done that. I've no experience with Anthill so I can't comment there. The official answer is: "It depends." The dependencies here are (and not limited to)
I'll tell a quick "war story" here as a way of illustrating one way of accomplishing this in a worst case scenario BUT with some handy tools that helped out a bit. I used to be in charge of being the Perl "librarian" for a very large financial firm on a global scale. The platforms I supported ran the gamut of SunOS 4.x to Solaris 5.[2-6] and Linux Redhat, Debian and Suse. The good news was we used AFS (Andrew File System) with multiple replica nodes around the globe. Perl itself was not installed on a system at build time but a symbolic link for Perl and its friends and pieces were installed instead pointing to the right place in AFS. We had a "build farm" with a battery of scripts that would build and install a CPAN module into AFS and then release to AFS after a successful build and test. There was a home grown database that kept a list of modules that had been "blessed" to be provided for distribution. Not only did we have to support a wide variety of platforms, but due to developer/app support team concerns we supported multiple versions of Perl including Perl4 (yuck!!) and which Perl a system got was driven by the host build process. All this was made possible by a philosophy of not installing anything on a host's local hard drive except the OS itself where practical. I didn't always agree with all of this but it worked. Another way I'd consider for solving this is setting up your own packaging scheme and setting up a process for installation and update of your own Perl package which would include the modules you want to distribute in your environment. Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional Peter -at- Berghold -dot- Net; AOL IM redcowdawg Yahoo IM: blue_cowdawg In reply to Re: Anthill to manage perl installations
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