Overriding core Perl modules

[Chip Turner]

Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com> writes:

> --On Monday, May 02, 2005 4:48 AM -0400 Chip Turner
> <cturner at pattern.net> wrote:
>
>> RPM-Specfile-1.19 is being uploaded to CPAN tonight.  It contains this
>> change (--use-usr-local, horrible name, alas) as well as the code to
>> detect the name of the top level tarball.
>
> Just got to try this to update MIME-Base64 to 3.05 on FC2. The magic
> command looks like this:
>
> cpanflute2 --buildall --use-usr-local --installdirs=site
> MIME-Base64-3.05.tar.gz
>
> I installed the result and then built MIME-tools-5.417 and didn't get
> its warning about an old MIME-Base64, so it seems to work so far.

Awesome!

Chip

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Chip Turner                   cturner at pattern.net