HEADS UP: Perl was fully re-packaged now in OpenPKG-CURRENT.
The individual changes to the "perl" and "perl-xxx" packages were:
- upgraded base from Perl 5.6.1 to new stable 5.8.0 version
- introduced perl-openpkg utility for use in perl-xxx packaging
- All(!) modules are now in site_perl to avoid conflicts with base versions
- use <prefix>/lib/perl instead of <prefix>/lib/perl5 to be consistent
- use "%setup0 -q -c" instead of redundant "%setup0 -q -c -n %{name}-%{version}"
- do not build and install man-pages because perldoc is enough
- fixed various small bugs in packaging
If you're upgrading to this new set of Perl packages, you first have
to upgrade the "perl" package. After this all you "perl-xxx" packages
will be dead (because staying under <prefix>/lib/perl5/5.6.1/), so
you immediately also have to upgrade all your "perl-xxx" packages
(and this way reinstal them into <prefix>/lib/perl/5.8.0/). Under
run-time you should see no incompatibilities, except that the section 3
manpages are no longer installed. The reason is that they just clutter
<prefix>/man/man3 with thousands of files without need, because a
simple "perldoc foo" instead of "man foo" still does the same effect
on-the-fly.
The main motivation for these major changes were that we wanted to fully
remove all redundancy in the "perl-xxx" packages and get again a fully
filesystem consistent packaging of all Perl stuff.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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www.engelschall.com
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