Re: Upgrading perl breaks netdisco

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Apr 01, 2018 at 06:29:17AM -0700, Andy Ruhl wrote:
> I'm sorry if I missed something obvious. I searched a bit and couldn't
> find the proper solution.
> 
> I have a raspberry pi I use to test some Netdisco stuff. I recently
> upgraded it from jessie to stretch, and it broke Netdisco:

Doens't look related to NetBSD then

> 
>  $ netdisco-web start
> Attempting to create directory /home/netdisco/perl5
> Unable to create /home/netdisco/perl5/lib/perl5/5.24.1: No such file
> or directory at /home/netdisco/perl5/lib/perl5/local/lib.pm line 686.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/netdisco/bin/localenv line 7.
> $ ~/bin/localenv cpanm --notest App::Netdisco
> Attempting to create directory /home/netdisco/perl5
> Unable to create /home/netdisco/perl5/lib/perl5/5.24.1: No such file
> or directory at /home/netdisco/perl5/lib/perl5/local/lib.pm line 686.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/netdisco/bin/localenv line 7.
> 
> 5.24.1 seems to be the new version of perl, and this directory does
> not exist. Some older ones do:
> 
> $ pwd
> /home/netdisco/perl5/lib/perl5
> $ ls -1d 5*
> 5.20.0
> 5.20.2
> 
> I'm sure I could just re-install and connect to the database that's
> already there. Is this the best way though?

Probably; if you upgrade perl you probably need to rebuild/reinstall every
perl modules.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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