Re: [arch-dev-public] libalpm hook and wrapper for detecting broken perl modules
On 11.06.2017 01:39, Allan McRae wrote: > I am very against this part (hook is completely fine). Having the perl > executable be something other than upstream (and every other distro) > provides, is not what Arch is about. Noted > I'm assuming the new location would be transparent to packagers (i.e. > they would not need to alter their PKGBUILDs)? Yeah, no changes are required outside the main perl package. We just have to rebuild affected packages and the perl build system will pick up the new path automatically. Florian signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-dev-public] libalpm hook and wrapper for detecting broken perl modules
On 11/06/17 08:03, Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public wrote: > One possibility to counter this would be to replace the perl executable > with a wrapper that performs the check and prints errors to stderr. > Optionally it could also exit with an error code rather than continuing > to run the script. I'm not sure if I want this or not, but I'm leaning > towards a yes since exiting will make the error more difficult to miss. I am very against this part (hook is completely fine). Having the perl executable be something other than upstream (and every other distro) provides, is not what Arch is about. I'm assuming the new location would be transparent to packagers (i.e. they would not need to alter their PKGBUILDs)? A
