Perl package rebuilds

Alan alan at clueserver.org
Sun Feb 10 20:25:03 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 17:54 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 16:11 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > I see a few Perl packages with a changelog like that:
> > > * Sun Feb 10 2008 Ralf Corsépius <rc040203 <at> freenet.de> - 0.89-3
> > > - Rebuild for gcc43.
> > > 
> > > * Tue Jan 15 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa <at> redhat.com> - 0.89-2
> > > - rebuild for new perl
> > 
> > This is bad! You're rebuilding the package again with the old Perl in dist-f9, 
> > so when dist-f9-perl gets merged, you'll have an EVR problem.
> I am rebuilding the packages against what is in CVS (aka dist-f9).
> 
> >  Now these 
> > packages need to be bumped and built for dist-f9-perl again!
> There is nothing I can do, if the "nominal perl" (dist-f9) collides with
> packages on another (unofficial) branch.

I assume the Perl rebuild is for Perl 5.10.0?  I hope so.  There are
fixes in that version I want.




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