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Remind users to run perl-cleaner after installing a new perl version. |
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This will be committed before the arch teams stabilize dev-lang/perl-5.12.2-r1. |
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,---- 2010-10-16-perl-5.12-upgrade-procedure.en.txt ---- |
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Title: Perl 5.12 upgrade procedure |
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Author: perl-team <perl@g.o> |
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Content-Type: text/plain |
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Posted: 2010-10-16 |
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Revision: 1 |
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News-Item-Format: 1.0 |
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Display-If-Installed: <dev-lang/perl-5.12 |
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Run `perl-cleaner --all` after upgrading to a new Perl version! |
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"Perl 5.12 is not binary compatible with prior releases of Perl. If |
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you have built extensions (i.e. modules that include C code) using an |
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earlier version of Perl, you will need to rebuild and reinstall those |
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extensions." [1] |
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In fact, in Gentoo you currently have to rebuild all Perl modules and |
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all binaries linking libperl to get into a consistent state again. |
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perl-cleaner generates a list of broken packages and passes it to your |
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package manager to reinstall them. After reinstalling the packages, |
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perl-cleaner outputs a list of files the script could not deal with |
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(like modules installed not via the package manager). |
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See `man perl-cleaner` for its options. |
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[1] http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.12.2/INSTALL#Changes_and_Incompatibilities |
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