X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,TW_XF X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8CCC8F85C5F2784387A32FAD835FB4E60A1D98CF34@server03.company.internal> References: <8CCC8F85C5F2784387A32FAD835FB4E60A1D98CF34 AT server03 DOT company DOT internal> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:51:18 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: perl switch question /setup.exe From: Reini Urban To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:13 AM, DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote: > As far as I understand the discussion it is necessary to reinstall all modules which are not part of the cygwin packages. Not all old modules, just the old site_perl/i686-cygwin XS modules. The others can happily co-exist. You can also install both perl versions in parallel. The only conflict is /usr/bin/perl.exe and some scripts in /usr/bin/ Simply install one and then manually extract the other favored perl, like tar xfj ...down/http..../release/perl/perl-5.10.1-5.tar.bz2 -C / > Because this will consume a lot of time (rebase manually after every step etc. ) I want to keep the old Version of perl for some time. A full reinstall of my ~1000 cpan modules required 2x perlrebase. Not that much hurt as with 5.10. > Is there a way to prevent setup.exe installs the new version permanently . Hack your /etc/setup/installed.db and fake the latest perl version. Be sure to have a backup patch. grep perl.*5.10.1 /etc/setup/installed.db -- Reini Urban http://cpanel.net/ http://www.perl-compiler.org/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple