From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23700 invoked by uid 1002); 19 Jul 2003 21:21:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 116 invoked from network); 19 Jul 2003 21:21:42 -0000 Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 17:23:29 -0400 From: Michael Cummings To: Thomas de Grenier de Latour Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030719172329.6a1254ed.mcummings@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20030719181319.29600c39.degrenier@easyconnect.fr> References: <20030719181319.29600c39.degrenier@easyconnect.fr> Organization: Gentoo X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="=.XKmuVp3yN80Ui," Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Perl-5.8 and "default-1.0" profile X-Archives-Salt: 70aafe52-cd75-4b8a-ab8c-75f9cfe1e794 X-Archives-Hash: b33c555430ad4c6504cd1c3b4e57942a --=.XKmuVp3yN80Ui, Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 -- -----o()o--------------------------------------------- | http://www.gentoo.org/ | #gentoo-dev on irc.freenode.net Gentoo Dev | #gentoo-perl on irc.freenode.net Perl Guy | | GnuPG Key ID: AB5CED4E9E7F4E2E -----o()o--------------------------------------------- On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 18:13:19 +0200 Thomas de Grenier de Latour 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, > > -- > TGL. > > PS: it would be really handy to have some profile ChangeLogs :) > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > --=.XKmuVp3yN80Ui, Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/GbbVq1ztTp5/Ti4RAjUCAJ42iRUSwc4VUFuQhHd9iykoRR1rxwCfcoeY /K8MepVpQ/Mj8lXEEwQsK/E= =E8Al -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.XKmuVp3yN80Ui,--