Le Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 04:16:09PM -0700, John Lapeyre écrivait: > Thats how I build my perl modules as well (and I guess others), so > it shouldn't be too much of a problem. (Acutally some of the more > complicated packages will need more changes.)
Yes I've looked over source for packages that need to work on my own machine and it was really not hard for upgrading. I had some problems for installing file where I wanted but in fact this should work on most cases : - perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=perl LIB=`pwd`/debian/tmp/usr/lib/perl5/debian - but for installing the PREFIX variable is also needed : make pure_install PREFIX=`pwd`/debian/tmp/usr => adapt it for your own package Darren, if you agree, can you modify the perl package in order to install modules in /usr/lib/perl5/debian and make these symlinks ? - /usr/lib/perl5/$arch/$version => /usr/lib/perl5/debian/$arch - /usr/lib/perl5/$version => /usr/lib/perl5/debian > I can't think of a better solution. Re: packages with only perl > source, many will probably not be affected by an upgrade, and it seems > silly to require that they be rebuilt. Yes. > I posted a message on perl5-porters asking for advice. We need to > set a policy quickly, as quite a bit of slink has just become unstable. > (Unfortunatley, I was using slink for daily science work. I don't have two > machines.) Yes, and I wondered why I was the only one who worried about that. :) And it's difficult to move backward since some packages has already been upgraded for perl5.005. Summary: - all packages installing perl modules are broken, they need to be updated using the directory proposed before. (/usr/lib/perl5/debian) There will be NO perl5.005 package using /usr/lib/perl5 for searching modules. - the perl package need to be updated in order to make it work - In fact I don't know if I really should list packages installing modules right now and fill bug report because there are too many (80), I'll wait a few days I think. Richard Braakman asked me for updating lintian so maybe he will be able to fill the bugreports automatically in a few days. Cheers, -- Hertzog Raphaël ¤ 0C4CABF1 ¤ http://www.mygale.org/~hra/