My company is making the move to Linux and as it is happening piecemeal, parts of my groups code is on Linux and part on Solaris. Now, to save the hassle of getting another department to add modules etc into the system, I have my own Perl modules directory. To distribute and manage this in dev and production I have a CVS module. Now, with the architecture specific subdirectories I though maybe I could use one module, but apparently many architecture specific modules break up their Perl parts into the non-arch dir and the arch specific into the arch-specific dir. Therefore when I go to do an install of an arch-specific Perl module on the second arch, CPAN complains that the module is already installed.

So what is the best way to handle multiple architectures. Forcing installs seems messy since it ignores tests (and may not be recursive for dependencies, not sure). Do I just maintain two entirely separate modules and call it good, or is there a better solution?

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In reply to Module management and multiple architectures by suaveant

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