Re: [gentoo-user] Perl pitfall

[Mick]

On Sunday 01 Mar 2015 23:01:42 Philip Webb wrote:
> Acc to 'emerge -Dup world',  virtual/perl-Digest-SHA  cb updated.
> However :
>
>   root:511 ~> emerge -pv perl-Digest-SHA
>
>   These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
>   Calculating dependencies... done!
>   [ebuild     U  ] virtual/perl-Digest-SHA-5.880.0 [5.820.0] 0 KiB
>   [uninstall     ] perl-core/Digest-SHA-5.820.0
>   [blocks b      ] <perl-core/Digest-SHA-5.880.0
> ("<perl-core/Digest-SHA-5.880.0" is blocking
> virtual/perl-Digest-SHA-5.880.0)
>
>   Total: 1 package (1 upgrade, 1 uninstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB
>   Conflict: 1 block
>
> However, while the virtual is in Stable, the perl-core pkg is in Testing :
>
>   root:512 ~> eix Digest-SHA
>   * dev-perl/Digest-SHA1
>        Available versions:  2.130.0-r1
>        Homepage:            http://search.cpan.org/dist/Digest-SHA1/
>        Description:         NIST SHA message digest algorithm
>
>   [I] perl-core/Digest-SHA
>        Available versions:  5.820.0 ~5.880.0 {test}
>        Installed versions:  5.820.0([2014-08-02 23:16:53])
>        Homepage:            http://search.cpan.org/dist/Digest-SHA/
>        Description:         Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/384/512
>
>   [U] virtual/perl-Digest-SHA
>        Available versions:  5.820.0 5.880.0
>        Installed versions:  5.820.0([2014-02-09 20:43:16])
>        Description:         Virtual for Digest-SHA
>
> Shomething wrong shomewhere ?

Something went sideways with perl in my systems too.  eclean distfiles 
revealed a couple of perl virtuals no longer in the tree.  Removing these 
resulted in the following depclean flushing out a dozen more perl packages, 
with perl-cleaner remerging the best part of 57 or so.  Now it seems happy.  
:-)

YMMV.

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Regards,
Mick