Cees Hek wrote:
On 6/26/07, Jim Spath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was attempting to upgrade Template Toolkit on Debian to 2.19 to take
advantage of the fix for iterating over tied hashes in
Template::Stash::XS
http://packages.debian.org/testing/perl/libtemplate-perl
I found it strange that this package requires perl 5.8.8 but Template
Toolkit itself does not.
Debian bases it's dependancies on the version of debian you are
running. The latest libtemplate-perl is available in 'testing' and
the verison of perl in 'testing' is perl 5.8.8.
You can sometimes find packages on backports.org that rebuild the
package for older debian distributions, but it is unlikely that
libtemplate-perl will be on there.
The simple solution is to just build your own debian package of
libtemplate-perl. It is really quite easy since debian provides a
tool called 'dh-make-perl' which does it all for you.
I wrote my own wrapper around dh-make-perl that also builds all of the
dependancies of the module you ask for that can not already be found
in the debian repository, and then automatically uploads the new
debian files to our inhouse debian repository.
Cheers,
Cees
I wasn't aware that the version of perl in testing was 5.8.8... I guess
not all perl packages in the testing repository adhere to that rule? Or
at least their authors don't make 5.8.8 a dependancy. Anyways, thank
you Cees for the information about that.
About dh-make-perl... we do use dh-make-perl, but frequently run into
issues with it. When we attempted to build TT 2.19 with dh-make-perl,
we ran into a problem where DESTDIR isn't respected properly for
tt2inst. So, when building the package, it would attempt to install to
an actual /usr/local directory, as opposed to $DESTDIR/usr/local.
Error message from package build:
mkdir /usr/local/tt2: Permission denied at bin/tt2inst line 55
make[1]: *** [tt2_install] Error 2
We ended up hacking the install a bit to force it to install to the
correct directory, but its exactly these types of things that we like to
avoid if possible.
- Jim
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