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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] trying to track down broken dependency
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Michael Higgins wrote:
> Perl 5.8 is at end-of-life.
>
> Gentoo volunteers are *very* (PAINFULLY) slow in getting 5.10 into the
> official tree. They unfortunately need all the help they can get, since
> this is a major failure of Gentoo to "keep up" with the upstream
> developers and (FWIW) other "distros". This isn't news, BTW...
>
> Please report the error on b.g.o., so the perl herd (or whoever is
> really doing the work now) can fix the problem. Also, #gentoo-perl is
> the only place to get any real help on these gentoo-perl issues...
> (devolution to IRC "chat" being yet another systemic failure, IMO, but
> that's the place the folks making these mistakes may communicate with
> users).
>
> Better yet, take the plunge and go on to install 5.10.1 from the
> perl-experimental overlay (good luck with *that*) and report how you
> fixed any issues you come across. It's only going to get to be a worse
> mess unless everyone who is able picks up the slack for these guys. And
> you will have to upgrade eventually anyway... so why not now?
>
> My $.02, not terribly helpful though, I suppose. :(
FWIW I'm also running RT and it's 200 odd Perl module dependencies on
the same machine. I can assure you that I have no interest in updating
the whole stack to perl-5.10 and the QA nightmare that will require.
I solved this the old fashioned way after a bit of coffee this morning.
Still seems like Portage should be smart enough to tell about the
missing dep if I asked it correctly.
1. created fake perl-5.10 ebuild which was really just renaming
perl-5.8.8-r2 and commenting out any {$PN} patches so I didn't need to
make a bunch of fake patch files in files/. This allowed portage to tell
me what was requiring perl-5.10 instead of bombing out.
2. Figured out that while the virtual/perl packages weren't specifying
perl 5.10 the actual perl-core were which is why it didn't make sense
earlier.
3. Doctored up portage.mask to mask the errant virtuals
>=virtual/perl-Digest-SHA-5.47
>=virtual/perl-Test-Harness-3.17
Thought grumpy thoughts at developers who let packages into ~x86 with
completely broken deps. Hard mask that crap next time.
4. Add the needed packages in portage.keywords and make it pretty and
organized.
# bugzilla and deps for bugzilla-3.4.1-r1, added 20090919
www-apps/bugzilla
dev-perl/Daemon-Generic
dev-perl/DateTime-TimeZone
dev-perl/Data-ObjectDriver
dev-perl/File-Flock
dev-perl/TheSchwartz
perl-core/Module-Build
perl-core/Test-Harness
virtual/perl-Module-Build
virtual/perl-Test-Harness
And now I've got a fancy new bugzilla.
kashani