[arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

[Steve Holmes]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 02:23:23PM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Am 30.06.2011 13:25, schrieb Casey Peter:
> > On 06/30/2011 05:08 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> >> Am 30.06.2011 12:59, schrieb Jelle van der Waa:
> >>> This discussion needs more info:
> >>> pacman -Q perl mod_perl  those two provide XSLoader.pm.
> >> They provide it, but at a different path. The file mentioned here is not
> >> contained in any package we built.
> >>
> > Not a clue at this point.  Yesterday, ptal-init worked fine.  perl
> > upgrade and now that error on boot up.
> 
> You have a file on your system that causes breakage, and is either not
> tracked by pacman, or contained in a non-official package. Isn't the
> solution obvious here? In the first case, delete the file, in the second
> case, delete the broken package.
> 

After plowing through this thread, I am replying to say that the
library in question belongs to perl-scalar-list-utils which can be
found in AUr.  It is required by other packages like
perl-eval-closure.  It is all part of a long list of cascading
dependencies for perl-moos and perl-net-twitter.

One other thing I observe with this package is that
perl-scalar-list-utils has a 'replaces' entry, replacing
perl-scalar-utils; I don't see that name in any repos nor my system at
the moment.