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On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Holly Bostick wrote: |
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> Libperl_rebuilder, rather unsuprisingly, rebuilds all installed Perl |
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> modules against a new version of Perl. It's supposed to be for if you |
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> have a < 5.8 version and have upgraded to a > 5.8 version, but I find |
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> Perl seems flakey/sensitive enough that it's good to run it once in a while. |
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> It takes a *really* long time, though-- it works in 3 passes, so it's |
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> very thorough, but quite slow (possibly depending on what modules you |
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> have installed; many modules install quite quickly, but gtk-perl alone |
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> takes a couple of hours, and it seems to be re-emerged twice, once |
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> during pass 2 and once during pass 3). I just ran it myself, and found |
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> that it basically moved the modules from /blah/blah/blah/5.8.5 to |
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> /blah/blah/blah/5.8.6, re-emerging them along the way. |
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> But atm, I've got so many freaky breakages going on, it was worth it to |
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> me to cover all bases. And it's not like it *hurts* to do it (afaik); it |
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> just takes a long, long time. |
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Perl-cleaner is, IMHO, much better than libperl_rebuilder: |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~mcummings/perl-cleaner |
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More info for example in this bug: |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62669 |
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T.G. |
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