Remind users to run perl-cleaner after installing a new perl version. This will be committed before the arch teams stabilize dev-lang/perl-5.12.2-r1.
,---- 2010-10-16-perl-5.12-upgrade-procedure.en.txt ---- Title: Perl 5.12 upgrade procedure Author: perl-team <p...@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2010-10-16 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Installed: <dev-lang/perl-5.12 Run `perl-cleaner --all` after upgrading to a new Perl version! "Perl 5.12 is not binary compatible with prior releases of Perl. If you have built extensions (i.e. modules that include C code) using an earlier version of Perl, you will need to rebuild and reinstall those extensions." [1] In fact, in Gentoo you currently have to rebuild all Perl modules and all binaries linking libperl to get into a consistent state again. perl-cleaner generates a list of broken packages and passes it to your package manager to reinstall them. After reinstalling the packages, perl-cleaner outputs a list of files the script could not deal with (like modules installed not via the package manager). See `man perl-cleaner` for its options. [1] http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.12.2/INSTALL#Changes_and_Incompatibilities `----
