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On 25 May 2012 20:52, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I switched local-lib from the g-cpan one to the perl-experimental one |
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> and all is well as far as installation all the way through |
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> Net-Braintree. Thank you very much for sticking with me on this guys. |
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> May I ask why you force the g-cpan category to dev-perl? |
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Using that category solves many issues in advance, ie: if you |
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generated an ebuild locally, and then we provided a maintained copy, |
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portage would just switch from one to the other seamlessly where |
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needed without you having to modify all ebuilds that depend on it. |
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ie: |
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if a package was installed in perl-gcpan/ instead ( which used to be |
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the case iirc ), you then have: |
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perl-gcpan/foo : DEPENDS dev-perl/bar |
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perl-gcpan/baz : DEPENDS perl-gcpan/foo |
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And if you want to cede development of "foo" to an overlay/gentoo, |
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you'd have to change perl-gcpan/baz to point to perl-gcpan/foo |
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instead. |
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With the packages all in dev-perl, no such changes are required. |
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> To what extent is running ebuilds from perl-experimental a safe endeavor? |
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It should be reasonably safe, but If you want to be sure, I advise |
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enabling tests. |
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---[ /etc/portage/package.env ]--- |
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dev-perl/* perlmod.conf |
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---[ /etc/portage/env/perlmod.conf ]--- |
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FEATURES="${FEATURES} test" |
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And this will at least give you the same level of assurance as you |
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would get if you were installing the packages with a CPAN client. |
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We do our best to make the overlay stable somewhat, but it will always |
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be somewhat less important than the main tree |
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> Should Net-Braintree or any of the ebuilds I had g-cpan trouble with |
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> be eligible for inclusion in the main tree or perl-experimental? |
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I've it on my mental TODO list, just a lot of other things I'm behind |
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schedule in updating atm. |
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> Thanks again, |
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> Grant |
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Kent |
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perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, |
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3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );" |
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