I've solved this issue a couple of different ways on a number of different platforms. Let me talk about two of those:

One environment I worked in I created a Solaris pkg file of a standardized Perl distrobution that I engineered. We took a development machine, put together a tree under a directory called /usr/local/software/perl-{VERSION} and installed all the CPAN modules we felt we needed to standardize on there. Once that was done we used the normal Sun packaging tools along with some cleanup scripts to do things like link the Perl executable into /usr/bin/perl the library tree to the right place, etc.

In one other environment ("a major financial compnay") AFS was the standard way of "distributing", for a lack of better word for it, software packages. Again, development and test machines were employed to put the dietributions together and put them on the AFS cells. In that environment we had many platforms to support so some automounter tricks were used to make sure that the right version of the Perl trees were mounted on the machines accordingly. AFS was laid out to accomodate the architecture differences between the platforms and the automounter maps for them configured accordingly.

Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
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In reply to Re: Secure deployment of binary perl modules by blue_cowdawg
in thread Secure deployment of binary perl modules by KillerDll

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