Perl CGI.pm POST_MAX problem in FC7 - when will latest version be available in archives?

Simon Andrews simon.andrews at bbsrc.ac.uk
Wed Sep 19 15:18:04 UTC 2007


B Wooster wrote:

> The latest versions of CGI.pm is 3.29 - using cpan to "install CGI"
> will bring this latest version to a FC7 box.
> So, that is a workaround for anyone else who is running CGI scripts on
> FC7 and using POST_MAX.
> 
> But - note that when perl/perl-lib gets update, an yum update will
> revert back the CGI.pm to 3.15! (As it happened last week when I did
> an yum update).
> That may be another issue - cpan updates and yum updates.

You can make the CPAN updates take preference by putting a 'use lib' 
statement at the top of your Perl script.  This will put the named 
directory to the top of @INC and mean that it will be used before the 
core modules.

Simon.




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