[lug] (not)Using CPAN (was: Re: can't make this stuff up, folks...)

[Rob Nagler]

On 10/19/09, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
>  If you use the former directly on a system with a software packaging system
>  (RPM or deb), you're heading for a world of pain.

Amen, brother.  We install all system configuration with RPMs:
httpd.confs, perl modules, users, etc.  This has saved us a world of
pain when we've wanted to: move applications from one server to the
next and recover from hardware failures.  Installation looks like:

sh kickstart-post.sh
hostname foo.bar
b-release install_host_stream

Then copy in the application data and we're up and running on a new
machine in less than an hour.

Oh yea, hardware doesn't fail anymore.  It's gotten so reliable that
we don't need to worry about stuff like this.

:)

Rob