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On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 12:41, Michael Cummings wrote: |
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> On Sat, 24 Aug 2002 23:00:44 +0200 |
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> Jan Schubert <Jan.Schubert@×××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> > I've seen, that some ebuilds are not at the edge of the time: Perl is |
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> > still 5.6.1, but 5.8 is out for some weeks now; Gentoo-sources refers |
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> > still to a 2.4.19-pre |
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> 5.8 is in portage, masked. Perl 5.8's MakeMaker is incompatible with a few |
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> dozen of our ebuilds. Until I have finished reworking them and have them |
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> verified by other users, I will not be unmasking 5.8. The version (-r2) |
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> that is in portage right now is not perfect, there are still a few loose |
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> ends to tie up in the final configuration, but you are welcome to unmask it |
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> locally or force an emerge of it (emerge perl-5.8.0-r2.ebuild in |
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> /usr/portage/sys-dev/perl/). |
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Let us not have any perl upgrade until it is ready. |
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Actually, let us not have any upgrade until it is ready ;) |
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Evan. |
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