[arch-dev-public] [signoff] db-4.8.24-1

[Allan McRae]

Jan de Groot wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 16:02 +0200, Firmicus wrote:
>   
>> Jan de Groot a écrit :
>>     
>>> On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 15:13 +0200, Firmicus wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Allan McRae a écrit :
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> Firmicus wrote:
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Allan McRae a écrit :
>>>>>>  
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It is time to signoff on the db-4.8 rebuild.  This also covers these
>>>>>>> packages from [core]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> heimdal
>>>>>>> iproute2
>>>>>>> libsasl
>>>>>>> pam
>>>>>>> perl (version bump)
>>>>>>>     
>>>>>>>           
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> mod_perl must be rebuilt as well. See FS#16392.
>>>>>> I will take care of it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However, perl 5.10.1 is not quite ready to go, because the issue with
>>>>>> libperl.so (FS#10971) is not yet settled.
>>>>>> Actually, I think we can nevertheless go forward with perl as it is in
>>>>>> testing (i.e. even with a not necessarily useful libperl.so), and fix
>>>>>> that later.
>>>>>>   
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Is that and irssi the only packages needing rebuilt for the perl update?
>>>>>
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> IIRC rxvt-unicode and vim embed perl and probably do also need to be
>>>> rebuilt... Kevin should know better than I do. The update from 5.8 to
>>>> 5.10 necessitated more rebuilds, but here it is a minor update, so that
>>>> perl modules with binary libraries should not necessitate a rebuild. I'd
>>>> really like to release 5.10.1, as I am not quite happy with 5.10.0
>>>> (because of the incomplete provides array and the fact that 5.10.0 was
>>>> quite heavily patched). I'm ready to help with the perl rebuilds for
>>>> both arches, of course.
>>>>
>>>> I am sorry for this inconvenience, but I did commit the changes in trunk
>>>> before I knew about the forthcoming db rebuild. I should have warned you
>>>> on this ML about it some days ago, though... Apologies!
>>>>
>>>> François
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> The rebuild list doesn't look so bad. 
>>>       
>> Until now we have:
>>
>> mod_perl
>> irsii (I note BTW that perl is missing from its makedepends array)
>> vim
>> gvim
>>
>> anything else? Kevin?
>>
>>     
>>> It's mainly caused by programs
>>> that link to libperl.a and then run with the 5.10.1 perl binary. This
>>> causes incompatibilities because the libperl.a file linked static into
>>> the application or module isn't updated. This is also the reason why we
>>> should have a libperl.so: to make sure apps embedding perl get their
>>> perl engine updated.
>>>   
>>>       
>> OK, I am currently rebuilding perl 5.10.1 with libperl.so and I will
>> then release it to testing.
>> (To hell with the small performance penalty, then :) )
>>
>> I will then start rebuilding the above packages with the new perl.
>>     
>
> Probably everything that links to libperl.a to get a perl plugin loader.
> I think xchat also includes perl plugin support, but I'm not sure about
> that.
>   

There is quite a few packages that have a reference to 5.10.0 in 
them....   here is the list:

abs-2.3.3-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
claws-mail-extra-plugins-3.7.2-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz
courier-mta-0.62.1-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz
courier-mta-0.62.1-4-i686.pkg.tar.gz
gift-fasttrack-0.8.9-4-i686.pkg.tar.gz
gift-gnutella-0.0.11-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz
git-1.6.4.4-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
gnumeric-1.8.4-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz
gvim-7.2.245-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
inkscape-0.46-12-i686.pkg.tar.gz
irssi-0.8.14-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
irssi-0.8.14-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz
mailman-2.1.11-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz
maxima-5.19.2-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz
mod_perl-2.0.4-5-i686.pkg.tar.gz
mythtv-0.21-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz
mythweather-0.21-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
net-snmp-5.4.2.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
ntop-3.3.10-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
obexftp-0.23-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz
perl-5.10.0-6-i686.pkg.tar.gz
perl-5.10.1-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz
perl-anyevent-5.12-1-any.pkg.tar.gz
perl-archive-zip-1.30-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
perl-dbi-1.609-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
perl-exiftool-7.89-1-any.pkg.tar.gz
perl-libwww-5.829-1-any.pkg.tar.gz
perl-mail-spf-2.006-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
perl-mp3-info-1.24-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
perl-net-dns-0.65-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
perl-net-ssleay-1.35-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
perl-template-toolkit-2.22-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
perl-term-readkey-2.30.01-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
perl-xml-libxml-1.69-2.pkg.tar.gz
perl-xml-libxslt-1.68-1.pkg.tar.gz
perl-xml-sax-0.96-1.pkg.tar.gz
perl-xml-writer-0.606-1.pkg.tar.gz
rxvt-unicode-256color-9.06-3.pkg.tar.gz
rxvt-unicode-9.06-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz
texlive-langextra-2009.14322-3-any.pkg.tar.gz
texmacs-1.0.7-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz
vim-7.2.245-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
weechat-0.3.0-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz
xchat-2.8.6-4-i686.pkg.tar.gz
xchat-gnome-0.26.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz


Some are obviously false positives...  (abs has a perl PKGBUILD 
prototype in it), but the list does include all packages mentioned so 
far.  I leave it to their maintainers to investigate.

Allan