[csw-maintainers] Perl experts wanted: Possible to update Storable.pm (core module)?

Peter Bonivart bonivart at opencsw.org
Thu Jun 18 09:22:27 CEST 2009


On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Mike Watters<mwatters at opencsw.org> wrote:
> It is technically be possible to replace the Storable.pm in core with a "new"
> version.

This is what I usually do.

> I don't know what the policy would be on this, but you would need a
> "pre-install" that does a backup of the existing files. and a post-remove that
> puts them all back -- only if the core perl package has "not" been removed.

Please explain this further, is this specifically for this module or in general?

-- 
/peter



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