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

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Wed Sep 30 10:48:35 EDT 2009


Allan McRae wrote:
> 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:

BTW, this is the list from my package cache which has all [testing], 
[core], [extra] and what I use from [community] in it...

>
> 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 



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