Re: [gentoo-dev] Perl-5.8 and "default-1.0" profile

[Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org>]

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I cannot speak as to why it was released for default-1.0 at this time (I actually don't know), but I can address your concerns. Perl-5.8 is stable and has been for some time; it has been a part of the 1.4 profile since Dec/Jan. I'd advise that when you finish the perl upgrade, you try out the libperl-rebuilder script located in dev-lang/perl/files/ (it's mentioned in the einfo at the end of the perl upgrade, but is often missed during a batch upgrade). libperl-rebuilder *attempts* to address the upgrade by re-building anything that was compiled against your old libperl.so (the new libperl.so is incompatible with the 5.6.1 version). It also attempts 3 times to re-emerge your perl modules. Why 3 times? Well, there doesn't exist yet in portage the ability to simple re-emerge anything affected by an upgrade. The three times is an attempt to get at all of the perl modules that you have installed that relied on the old libperl.a/so - three times being a safe number of sub-dependencies that should catch almost everything. That is, after the third sweep, there shouldn't be anything left that depends on anything that hasn't been re-emerged yet. libperl-rebuilder isn't perfect, as we've seen via bugzilla, but for most it does a fair job. As always, please post problems to bugs.gentoo.org care of perl@gentoo.org where rac and I watch for problems. Thanks and I hope this helps,

Mike
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On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 18:13:19 +0200
Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@easyconnect.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've seen that perl-5.8 is now unmasked in default-1.0/packages. Before
> I do the update, I would like to be sure it's a safe and intentional
> change (please forgive my skepticism, but it has been -5.6 for such a
> long time...). Can somebody confirm this please?
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
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> TGL.
> 
> PS: it would be really handy to have some profile ChangeLogs :)
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