[gentoo-user] g-cpan not pulling in the correct depencies

[gentoo-user] g-cpan not pulling in the correct depencies

[Grant]

I'm trying to use g-cpan to pull in Bundle-InterchangeKitchenSink:

http://search.cpan.org/~MIKEH/Bundle-InterchangeKitchenSink/InterchangeKitchenSink.pm

but the list of dependencies is way off.  Is g-cpan just broken?

[ebuild  N    ] perl-gcpan/OLE-Storage-Lite-0.18
[ebuild  N    ] perl-gcpan/IO-Stty-0.02
[ebuild  N    ] perl-gcpan/Set-Crontab-1.02
[ebuild  N    ] x11-misc/util-macros-1.2.1
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/OLE-StorageLite-0.14
[ebuild  N    ] perl-core/Text-Balanced-2.0.0
[ebuild  N    ] perl-gcpan/Image-Size-3.2
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/IO-Tty-1.07
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/TermReadKey-2.30
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/Term-ReadLine-Perl-1.03.02
[ebuild  N    ] dev-lang/tcl-8.4.18  USE="-debug -threads"
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/Unicode-Map-0.112
[ebuild  N    ] x11-proto/xproto-7.0.14
[ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/xtrans-1.2.3  USE="-debug"
[ebuild  N    ] x11-proto/kbproto-1.0.3
[ebuild  N    ] x11-proto/inputproto-1.5.0
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.32  USE="unicode -cjk -test"
[ebuild  N    ] x11-proto/xf86bigfontproto-1.1.2
[ebuild  N    ] x11-proto/bigreqsproto-1.0.2
[ebuild  N    ] x11-proto/xcmiscproto-1.1.2
[ebuild  N    ] virtual/perl-Text-Balanced-2.0.0
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/Parse-RecDescent-1.94
[ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/libICE-1.0.4  USE="-debug -ipv6"
[ebuild  N    ] x11-proto/xextproto-7.0.4
[ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/libXau-1.0.4  USE="-debug"
[ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/libXdmcp-1.0.2  USE="-debug"
[ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/libX11-1.1.5  USE="-debug -ipv6 -xcb"
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-2.20
[ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/libSM-1.1.0  USE="-debug -ipv6"
[ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/libXt-1.0.5  USE="-debug"
[ebuild  N    ] dev-lang/tk-8.4.18-r1  USE="-debug -threads"
[ebuild  N    ] perl-gcpan/Bundle-InterchangeKitchenSink-1.06

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] g-cpan not pulling in the correct depencies

[Michael Higgins]

On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:03:38 -0700
Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to use g-cpan to pull in Bundle-InterchangeKitchenSink:
> 
> http://search.cpan.org/~MIKEH/Bundle-InterchangeKitchenSink/InterchangeKitchenSink.pm
> 
> but the list of dependencies is way off.  Is g-cpan just broken?

That's about it, yes. (I think the way perl is handled in Gentoo is in serious need of review.)

Of course, what you are trying to install, to be fair, isn't exactly trivial and g-cpan does trivial well enough... usually.

So, perhaps you could just install the pieces you need? I don't think portage will ever be able to handle CPAN 'bundles'.

Just gcpan -g for each item in the package from a shell script. Maybe it will work once you have an ebuild for each needed module, or you can see which one is just way off... and edit to work.

You do have the ("perl-experimental") overlay?

Good luck.

Cheers,

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Re: [gentoo-user] g-cpan not pulling in the correct depencies

[Grant]

>> I'm trying to use g-cpan to pull in Bundle-InterchangeKitchenSink:
>>
>> http://search.cpan.org/~MIKEH/Bundle-InterchangeKitchenSink/InterchangeKitchenSink.pm
>>
>> but the list of dependencies is way off.  Is g-cpan just broken?
>
> That's about it, yes. (I think the way perl is handled in Gentoo is in serious need of review.)
>
> Of course, what you are trying to install, to be fair, isn't exactly trivial and g-cpan does trivial well enough... usually.
>
> So, perhaps you could just install the pieces you need? I don't think portage will ever be able to handle CPAN 'bundles'.
>
> Just gcpan -g for each item in the package from a shell script. Maybe it will work once you have an ebuild for each needed module, or you can see which one is just way off... and edit to work.
>
> You do have the ("perl-experimental") overlay?

Thanks Michael.  I don't have that overlay.  What would it do for me?
An improved g-cpan?

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] g-cpan not pulling in the correct depencies

[Michael Higgins]

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:07:31 -0700
Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:

> > You do have the ("perl-experimental") overlay?  
> 
> Thanks Michael.  I don't have that overlay.  What would it do for me?

It's where other ebuilds wind up if no one puts them in the official tree. 

So, if there needs to be some customisation of an ebuild, it *may* already be done in the overlay. And g-cpan should find it and use it, so may save some time and hassle.

> An improved g-cpan?

Unfortunately, not... BTW, there is a patch to g-cpan which hasn't made it into the tree. I haven't tried it but... looking at the code, it may help a bit with some blatant errors. Still, I don't think a CPAN 'bundle' is going to fly very well using this code... since I believe a 'bundle' really relies on CPAN doing the work, not a package manager.

HTH.

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