[aur-general] Perl update
Hi, I add this [1] as a comment to https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/shutter/ . There still is the question, if AUR package maintainers will fix issues caused by the Perl update soon? Regards, Ralf [1] Yet I did not download and run find-broken-perl-packages.sh, but I guess this [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# pacman -Syu [snip] resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: shutter: requires perl-pathtools is related to the Perl updated to 5.20 ( https://www.archlinux.org/news/perl-updated-to-520/ ). Will AUR packages be fixed by the maintainers? [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# pacman -R shutter [snip] After that I could update.
On 04.06.2014 20:57, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
There still is the question, if AUR package maintainers will fix issues caused by the Perl update soon? [..] :: shutter: requires perl-pathtools
Get perl-cpanplus-dist-arch and use cpan2aur to create the package.
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 21:06 +0200, Florian Pritz wrote:
On 04.06.2014 20:57, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
There still is the question, if AUR package maintainers will fix issues caused by the Perl update soon? [..] :: shutter: requires perl-pathtools
Get perl-cpanplus-dist-arch and use cpan2aur to create the package.
Thank you, that does answer a request I sent using the wrong account, so it didn't came through the list :): "PS: Pardon that I ask, instead of simply testing it. Will the issues be fixed, if users simply rebuild the existing AUR packages that are affected?" :D Regards, Ralf
On 04.06.2014 21:16, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
"PS: Pardon that I ask, instead of simply testing it. Will the issues be fixed, if users simply rebuild the existing AUR packages that are affected?"
The package depends on perl-pathtools so no. You could try removing the dependency, but that will probably make the software not work due to a missing module.
On 06/04/14 13:06, Florian Pritz wrote:
On 04.06.2014 20:57, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Get perl-cpanplus-dist-arch and use cpan2aur to create the package.
Actually, get perl-cpanplus-dist-arch-git Juster keeps that up to date more so than the Community package. Juster is also really cool about fixing bugs upstream when requested; he does prefer to get notified via email though as opposed to AUR Comments. -- Thanks, John D Jones III UNIX Zealot; Perl Lover unixgeek1972@gmail.com jnbek1972@gmail.com http://zoelife4u.org/
Sorry to revive this, I just saw this when searching my email for a CPANPLUS::Dist::Arch patch. perl-pathtools should, in theory, be "provide"-ed by the "perl" package. PathTools is a CPAN distribution, whose modules are core modules. PathTools includes venerable core modules like File::Spec and Cwd. So at first glance this looks like the provides.pl script in the perl perl source package has a bug and is missing perl-pathtools! I will look into this further, since this is ultimately my fault! John, I very much appreciate the sentiment :) but in Florian's defense he keeps the perl-cpanplus-dist-arch package very up to date and in a timely manner. The perl-cpanplus-dist-arch-git package doesn't get much usage and I should probably delete it. PathTools: https://metacpan.org/release/PathTools File::Spec in core: http://perldoc.perl.org/File/Spec.html provides.pl: https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/p... -- -Justin
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