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On Tuesday 24 January 2006 07:21 am, Michael Cummings wrote: |
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> Just in case nobody noticed this weekend ;) |
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> Perl 5.8.8 RC1 is in portage. It is currently package masked, so either |
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> update /etc/portage/package.unmask or manually tweak |
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> $PORTDIR/profiles/package.mask, whatever floats your boat. It is my |
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> intention (yea, for what good that does :) to leave the RC's in package |
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> mask, mostly because they're intended for people to test out and offer |
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> feedback on the maintenance release prior to it being marked stable (so |
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> I don't want people putting this into production, for instance). |
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> Here are some things I know are broken: |
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> * PDL won't build. I think this is an EU::MM bug and have a patch |
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> submitted to mschwern for feedback. |
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> * SVN won't build. This is actually due to a swig bug and is fixed |
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> upstream (RC2 hopefully) |
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> * wxperl doesn't build. Not sure why, haven't had time to trace the c |
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> errors, could be related to above, could be something completely |
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> different. |
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> These were the only problems I ran into after working on 350+ packages |
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> this weekend, so I guess all in all not a bad take (also worked a bit on |
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> perl-cleaner to get more accurate rebuilds). You know where to find me |
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> if you have complaints, |
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Wow - 350+ packages - a busy weekend. |
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One question: can you tell me in general what 'perl-cleaner' does? |
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> ~mcummings |
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Aloha => Beau; |
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