On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 01:40:56AM +0200, Benny Pedersen wrote:
> > Probably sounds a bit archaic, but I've gotten used to it, g-cpan and
> > everything else that's existed seemed to explode too often for my liking.
> it worked before, but not much perl in gentoo is any longer maintained :/
What gives you that idea? The perl herd is probably one of the least
often outdated packages of all of Gentoo, because of the ease of trivial
bumps.

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/perl/outdated-cpan-packages.xml
Updated every 6 hours if there are changes in upstream CPAN.

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/perl/outdated-cpan-packages-perl-experimental.xml
Updated irregularly, but often.

http://dev.gentoo.org/~robbat2/scripts/perl-bump-0.5.sh
Tool for bumping Perl packages, not perfect, but works 99% of the time.

> hope this will change to the better, i am still at gentoo, but if devs run
> away from it to deb/rpm systems then i have to also :/
> g-cpan -g Mail::SPF
This is one of those cases where upstream's version numbering never made
g-cpan work in the first place.

The generated ebuilds needed the following added:
MY_P="${PN}-v${PV}"
S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"

I generated the ebuilds with my copy of g-cpan, available here:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~robbat2/scripts/g-cpan-robbat2-20090609
And they are committed now too.

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