Re: [gentoo-user] Surviving perl-5.24.0

[Max R.D. Parmer]

On Fri, May 20, 2016, at 16:33, walt wrote:
> I spent most of today updating from perl-5.22 to perl-5.24 because so
> many packages failed to install.  I ran perl-cleaner about a hundred
> times and tried emerge -ac in between, which always failed because it
> falsely accused me of not doing emerge -auND.
>
> Finally I got through the perl update and noticed a message saying
> 'emerge -auND --with-bdeps=y is the ultimate way to update...' so I
> added the '--with-bdeps=y' and another twenty perl-related packages got
> rebuilt after I thought I was done.
>
> Now I'm really done, I think, but I'm afraid to reboot this machine.
>
>

I had the perl 5.24 update go off without a hitch on three other boxes,
but this morning I'm having a heck of a time upgrading it on #4.

Everything appears to go fine until:
> Couldn't copy cpan/podlators/blib/script/pod2man to /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/perl-5.
> 24.0/image//usr/bin/pod2man: No such file or directory
> Couldn't chmod 755 /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/perl-5.24.0/image//usr/bin/pod2man: No s
> uch file or directory
> /usr/bin/pod2text
> Couldn't copy cpan/podlators/blib/script/pod2text to /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/perl-5
> .24.0/image//usr/bin/pod2text: No such file or directory
> Couldn't chmod 755 /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/perl-5.24.0/image//usr/bin/pod2text: No
> such file or directory
> /usr/bin/pod2usage
> Couldn't copy cpan/Pod-Usage/blib/script/pod2usage to /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/perl-
> 5.24.0/image//usr/bin/pod2usage: No such file or directory
> Couldn't chmod 755 /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/perl-5.24.0/image//usr/bin/pod2usage: No
> such file or directory

Then everything rolls along 'til dying with this:
> installman: Can't open cpan/podlators/blib/script/pod2man: No such file or directory
> ABORTED

Surprising to have this build fail like this when I've done it
elsewhere. Odd.

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