[arch-general] Perl 5.20 in [testing]

Stefan Husmann stefan-husmann at t-online.de
Wed Jun 4 14:05:56 EDT 2014


Am 01.06.2014 13:55, schrieb Florian Pritz:
> Hi,
>
> Perl 5.20, as any other new perl version, requires all modules that are
> not purely perl code to be rebuilt. We did that for all packages in our
> repos.
>
> For a list of upstream changes please refer to `man perldelta`.
>
> Since users probably installed some from AUR or with
> CPANPLUS::Dist::Arch, I wrote a script[1] that generates a local rebuild
> list.
>
> [1]:
> https://git.server-speed.net/users/flo/bin/plain/find-broken-perl-packages.sh
>
>   - raw.txt contains a list of files that generated an error
>   - perl-modules.txt contains a list of modules the files belong to
>   - perl-dists.txt contains a list of distributions
>   - pacman.txt contains a list of pacman packages the files belong to
>
> Binaries linking with libperl.so will also need to be rebuilt. You can
> use lddd from devtools to find those.
>
> If you get an error that perl-scalar-list-utils can't be found when
> running -Syu install it with -S perl-scalar-list-utils. Seems to be a
> bug in pacman.
>
> Please report any issue you encounter.
>
>
Hello,

where can I get module-to-dist.pl from?

It is called by your script, and pkgfile does not know it.

Best Regards
Stefan


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