Last perl build broke my instance of perl and made it necessary to reinstall archlinux or try to. Maybe I'll get that done tomorrow. On Sat, 2 Jun 2012, Myra Nelson wrote:

While working on some AUR packages, I took a look at the PKGBUILD prototypes that come with pacman. The one difference that I had a question about has to do with this snippet:

_author=AUTHOR_NAME

_perlmod=MODNAME

pkgname=perl-$_perlmod

pkgver=VERSION

Since the MODNAME package being downloaded is, major caveat --usually, BackPAN-Index-0.40.tar.gz that would make the pkgname perl-BackPAN-Index-$pkgver[whatever]. A quick survey of the Arch package database still shows packages still named like perl-backpan-index-$pkgver[whatever]. I've yet to use the pkgname style, but was wondering if this is the future of perl package naming?

Myra

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On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Myra Nelson <myra.nelson@hughes.net> wrote:

While working on some AUR packages, I took a look at the PKGBUILD prototypes that come with pacman. The one difference that I had a question about has to do with this snippet:

_author=AUTHOR_NAME

_perlmod=MODNAME

pkgname=perl-$_perlmod

pkgver=VERSION

Since the MODNAME package being downloaded is, major caveat --usually, BackPAN-Index-0.40.tar.gz that would make the pkgname perl-BackPAN-Index-$pkgver[whatever]. A quick survey of the Arch package database still shows packages still named like perl-backpan-index-$pkgver[whatever]. I've yet to use the pkgname style, but was wondering if this is the future of perl package naming?

Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

I'm simply asking it the PKGBUILD-perl.proto with the pkgname=perl-$_perlmod is correct. # This is an example PKGBUILD file. Use this as a start to creating your own, # and remove these comments. For more information, see 'man PKGBUILD'. # NOTE: Please fill out the license field for your package! If it is unknown, # then please put 'unknown'. # See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Perl_Package_Guidelines for more # information on Perl packaging. # Maintainer: Your Name <youremail@domain.com> _author=AUTHOR_NAME _perlmod=MODNAME pkgname=perl-$_perlmod pkgver=VERSION pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="" arch=() url="http://search.cpan.org/~$_author/$_perlmod-$pkgver/" license=('GPL' 'PerlArtistic') groups=() depends=('perl>=5.10.0') makedepends=() provides=() conflicts=() replaces=() backup=() options=(!emptydirs) install= source=(http://cpan.perl.org/modules/by-authors/id/$_author/$_perlmod-$pkgver.tar.gz) md5sums=() build() { cd "$srcdir/$_perlmod-$pkgver" # Install module in vendor directories. PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor make ## For packages with Build.PL, do this instead: # perl Build.PL installdirs=vendor destdir="$pkgdir/" # perl Build } package() { cd "$srcdir/$_perlmod-$pkgver" make install DESTDIR="$pkgdir/" ## For packages with Build.PL, do this instead: # perl Build install } # vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et: Nothing is broken, I have not used it this way, I'm just inquiring about the PKGBUILD-perl.proto that is installed with pacman. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!