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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 21 July 2010 20:33:42 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> > On 07/21/2010 08:34 PM, Willie Wong wrote: |
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> > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:04:54PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> > >> Portage recently updated Perl from 5.10.1 to 5.12.1 (and later -r1). |
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> > >> However, a crapload of files still remain in |
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> > >> /usr/lib/perl5/{site_perl,vendor_perl}/5.10.1. I found out the hard way |
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> > >> after trying to emerge openoffice (and everyone knows how painful that |
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> > >> one is): |
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> > >> |
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> > >> What is the user required to do after updating Perl? elogv doesn't tell |
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> > >> me anything about upgrading. |
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> > > |
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> > > There's this neat little script called perl-cleaner |
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> > > |
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> > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/perl/perl-cleaner.xml |
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> > |
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> > Thanks. How do I call the script? I don't have any idea what perl |
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> > modules or ph files are (or why I need them). What do I need to do? |
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> |
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> Short version: |
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> You run |
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> |
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> perl-cleaner --modules |
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> and it just does it. |
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> |
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> Long version: |
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> perl comes out the box as an interpreter and some base functionality. The |
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> community provides a brazillion useful modules for all sort of things. Like eg |
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> Date. Need to do some Date manipulation? No need to write the disgusting code |
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> yourself to work with Dates, someone else already did it. Just install a |
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> module. |
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> |
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> The trouble is that modules are often written in perl itself and closely tied |
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> to the version of perl used. If you upgrade perl, you must also rebuild all |
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> the modules tied to it, they don't just migrate. |
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> This is a painful process. It's enough to drive a sysadmin to drink or (god |
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> forbid), to Windows. Portage can't help as the ebuild doesn't know what you |
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> have installed. So you must run a script to go and dig out all this crap for |
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> you. |
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> |
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> All I can say is, every day I get down on my knees and offer thanks that perl |
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> is not slotted. |
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But portage should be sensible enough to either run this for you, or |
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stop emerging -- I had a lot of trouble during the last update where I |
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kept getting errors and I emerged a couple of them before I knew I had |
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to run perl-cleaner. |
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-- |
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Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: |
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How do |
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you spend it? |
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John Covici |
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covici@××××××××××.com |
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