Safely upgrading perl 5.00503 to 5.6.1?

I manage a server running Red Hat Linux v6.1. I am thinking of upgrading perl from 5.00503 to 5.6.1.

I've upgraded perl in the past, but every time I did it, I had to reinstall all the modules from CPAN. But, I think there's supposed to be a way to install perl 5.6.1 without loosing all the modules from 5.00503 (when I install 5.6.1, it asks me if I want binary compatibility with 5.00503).

But how do I do that? I haven't been able to get it to work so far. This is a production server, so it would be bad if I broke all the currently installed modules; I'd have a hard time tracking down which ones need to be reinstalled.

 

 

 

 

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