CPAN hanging on ExtUtils::MakeMaker even if installed

[Jaime Kikpole]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:26 AM, Matthew Seaman <matthew at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Speaking as the rt40 port maintainer, I feel you may be making your life
> unnecessarily difficult here.  The port won't touch your data: it does
> precisely nothing to the database.  It does let you set default values
> for DB connection parameters at install time, but that's  not required
> and you can just use the normal configuration files to the same effect.

I had no idea.  I assumed that it could only attempt to setup a new
DB.  Thank you.  That will be a big help.

Does the rt40 port make a new MySQL database by the name of rt4?  My
current data is in a MySQL database named rt3, which is why I ask.
How would you recommend getting the migrated data over to the new
version?

As a side note, it seems that I've put off the Apache 1.3.x to 2.x
upgrade for far too long.  The rt40 port requires p5-Log-Dispatch
which requires some Apache port.  Since apache13 was deprecated in
November, I'll have to upgrade Apache itself first.  I'm thinking that
I'll do that today and go with the apache22 port.  I'm open to advise
on the Apache upgrade if anyone has any.


> Hmmm... well, the port doesn't use 'make fixdeps' because it's the ports
> job to ensure that all the required dependencies are fulfilled.

That is very good news.  Thank you.


> However, if I try it manually, everything works just fine.  This is on a
> system with only the version of E::MM that comes bundled with perl-5.12
> (which is version 6.56).  The make fixdeps output looks completely
> different though -- what version of RT are you trying to use?

RT 4.0.5.  Perl 5.8.9.

Thanks so much for the help.  Its one of the great things about the
open source community that I'm not at the mercy of a "help desk" that
say things like "OK, why don't you go ahead and reinstall it, then?"

Jaime

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