Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 13:48:14 +0400 From: Andrej Zverev <az@freebsd.org> To: perl@freebsd.org Subject: announcement of future perl changes. Message-ID: <CAD5bB%2BjZgA9nNDC_cJP3T8VPW4%2BvgN2Y4Boh_5ca==BjyxZWPw@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello
A big updates to lang/perl5.x are coming.
First of all about updates:
lang/perl5.12 upgrade from version 5.12.4 to 5.12.5
lang/perl5.14 upgrade from version 5.14.2 to 5.14.4
lang/perl5.16 upgrade from version 5.16.2 to 5.16.3
Second we are trying to modify directory structures where are perl being
installed.
Current directory structure look in this way:
/usr/local/lib/perl5/{PERL_VERSION}
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/{PERL_VERSION}
where PERL_VERSION consists of [major].[minor].[patchlevel].
Idea here to remove [patchlevel], since perl API/ABI was stable enough
during decades.
After modification directory structure will look in such way:
/usr/local/lib/perl5/{PERL_VERSION}
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/{PERL_VERSION}
where PERL_VERSION consists of [major].[minor].
In short:
before:
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.14.2
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.2
after:
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.14
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14
Benefits of such naming schema:
1. Don't need to run perl-after-upgrade (furthermore it can't work with
pkgng)
port-after-upgrade will be removed.
2. This change will allow us bring perl closer, to be more compatible with
pkgng in near future
(re-create lang/perl5 as meta-port for future soft updates with pkgng).
>From of you, who want to test it now, you can get following patches (depend
on perl version you have) and
follow instruction:
1. Find patch for your installed perl version here:
http://people.freebsd.org/~az/perl/
If your perl older, you can try modify patch by hands.
2. Apply patch via svn patch command or by patch(1).
If you will do patch(1) there are conflict in one hunk in
files/perl-after-upgrade - it's normal.
3. Those who used patch(1) and have default perl (5.14 for 5.12 or 5.16 put
your lang/perl5.x):
a) # find /usr/ports/lang/perl5.14 -size 0c -delete -print
b) # find /usr/ports/lang/perl5.14 -name "*.orig" -delete -print
c) # find /usr/ports/lang/perl5.14 -name "*.rej" -delete -print
d) # find /usr/ports/lang/perl5.14 -name "perl-after-upgrade*" -delete
-print
e) # portmaster -r perl
or
# portupgrade -rf perl
or
# pkg install -fR perl
There are few ports (mail/cyrus-imapd22 and cyrus-imapd23), which SITE_PERL
change will break, but they will soon be corrected.
Any feedback welcome!!!
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