Re: duplicating installation on other server

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Bart Simpson wrote:
> I've just had to move to a new developement machine. I
> built apache2, mp2 and now I'm ready to install the
> cpan modules i downloaded individually. I don't want
> to do that again. Is there a faq somewhere that tells
> best way to do this. I copied old site_perl directory
> to new machine and it seems to run ok . Is this
> sufficient or will there be issues?

If the machines have the exact same architecture, external libraries, 
etc than you _might_ be ok. But I would suggest creating a CPAN bundle 
off the first machine and use that to install. 
http://cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_make_bundle

This will also catch the problem of not having some external (to perl) 
library installed on your system (like GD).

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        Michael Peters
Developer
Plus Three, LP