Re: [gentoo-dev] anybody interested in writing a Perl ebuild?

[David Abbott]

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
>>> DateTime-Format-RFC3339
>>
>> Ah. The dreaded v-strings.
>>
>> You'll note: http://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/I/IK/IKEGAMI/
>>
>> That there is a "v" before the version specifier in the problem dist,
>> and the portage ebuild has not factored this into the equation, and is
>> looking for DateTime-Format-RFC3339-1.0.5.tar.gz     when it should be
>> looking for DateTime-Format-RFC3339-v1.0.5.tar.gz
>>
>> If you can edit the ebuild source to solve this issue, and then re-run
>> repoman manifest, that might help. But at least we now know what is
>> happening wrong with g-cpan.
>>
>> In editing, you'll be wanting to look for varibles ( mostly in SRC_URI
>> and I think S )  which use "${PV}" and change it to use "v${PV}"
>> instead.
>
> These ebuilds don't seem to have any of those variables:
>
> # Copyright 1999-2010 Gentoo Foundation
> # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
> # This ebuild generated by g-cpan 0.16.4
>
> EAPI="2"
>
> MODULE_AUTHOR="IKEGAMI"
>
> inherit perl-module
>
> DESCRIPTION="Parse and format RFC3339 datetime strings"
>
> LICENSE="|| ( Artistic GPL-1 GPL-2 GPL-3 )"
> SLOT="0"
> KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 amd64-fbsd arm hppa ia64 m68k mips ppc ppc64
> s390 sh sparc sparc-fbsd x86 x86-fbsd   ppc-aix x86-freebsd
> x64-freebsd sparc64-freebsd hppa-hpux ia64-hpux x86-interix
> amd64-linux arm-linux ia64-linux ppc64-linux x86-linux ppc-macos
> x86-macos x64-macos m68k-mint x86-netbsd ppc-openbsd x86-openbsd
> x64-openbsd sparc-solaris sparc64-solaris x64-solaris x86-solaris
> x86-winnt x86-cygwin"
> IUSE=""
>
> DEPEND="dev-perl/DateTime
>    dev-lang/perl"
>
> - Grant
>

Hi Grant,
See "inherit perl-module" take a look at /usr/portage/eclass/perl-module.eclass

Regards,
David