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-u should be checking for upgrades. Do you have a permanent |
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PORTDIR_OVERLAY, and if so, is there a perl-gcpan directory with |
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generated ebuilds in it? g-cpan checks against ebuilds in your overlay |
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(not installed - wasn't that bright when I added that functionality). |
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-mike |
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Chisel Wright wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> |
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> I'm confused. (Not new, some might say) |
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> |
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> What exactly does/should 'g-cpan -u' do? I was under the impression that |
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> it would check all g-cpan installed perl modules and install newer |
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> versions (if they exist). |
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> So, why does the following happen: |
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> ---- cut here ---- |
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> thea ~ # g-cpan -u IO |
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> * g-cpan: Looking for IO... |
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> CPAN: Storable loaded ok |
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> Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata |
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> Database was generated on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:49:13 GMT |
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> * g-cpan: Checking ebuild for 'IO': IO |
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> Running make for G/GB/GBARR/IO-1.22.tar.gz |
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> |
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> *snip* |
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> |
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> Manifying blib/man3/IO::File.3pm |
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> Manifying blib/man3/IO::Socket::UNIX.3pm |
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> Manifying blib/man3/IO.3pm |
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> /usr/bin/make -- OK |
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> Calculating dependencies ...done! |
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>>>>Auto-cleaning packages ... |
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>>>>No outdated packages were found on your system. |
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> |
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> * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. |
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> thea ~ # perl -MIO -e 'print IO->VERSION(), qq[\n];' |
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> 1.22 |
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> thea ~ # g-cpan -u IO |
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> * g-cpan: Looking for IO... |
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> CPAN: Storable loaded ok |
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> Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata |
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> Database was generated on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:49:13 GMT |
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> * g-cpan: Checking ebuild for 'IO': IO |
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> Running make for G/GB/GBARR/IO-1.22.tar.gz |
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> CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok |
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> *snip* |
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> ---- cut here ---- |
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> OK, so I upgrade IO, is appears to install successfully. I check what |
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> version of IO perl thinks I have installed. |
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> So, just to be sure, I tell g-cpan to upgrade IO. It then 'upgrades' |
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> from 1.22 to 1.22. |
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> Erm. |
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> I'm confused. |
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> It seems to be the same or similar with 'g-cpan -u' to try to upgrade |
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> everything. |
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> I'm not even sure if 'g-cpan -u' does anything or not. |
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