Greetings monks,

I have written some perl scripts here and there, but more significantly am just becoming familiar with working in a unix environment. My boss has asked me to replicate the perl modules/perl environment on a number of old servers on our spanking brand new ones.

The modules were installed over 3-4 yrs time. I see the scripts to output what modules I have installed, but there are hundreds, it seems. This is time sensitive and high profile.... Does anyone have tips? What do I need to look out for? Will all the older modules be accessible? Will my applications work if they're not? I know the standard CPAN install usually brings over the latest version; what if I need older versions? We have mostly web apps (database writes and info display, some xsl manipulation). Is this an impossible task to accomplish in a week? (6 servers?)

Thanks in advance.

In reply to Installing modules, trial by fire by anonamonk

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