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. F
