Re: Rebuilds for new Perl?

[Ville Skyttä <ville skytta iki fi>]

On Sunday 20 January 2008, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:

> Because everything that depends on perl needs to be rebuilt,

Hmm, that sounds odd to me, could you confirm this?

I'd assume that all packages that ship files in /usr/lib*/perl5 or things 
linked with libperl.so would require a rebuild, but that'd be about it.

> I've got the first 300 or so dependencies in a list, and I'm
> chainbuilding them in the dist-f9-perl tag, as not to completely break
> rawhide.
>
> Once I get those done, the plan is to merge the packages in dist-f9-perl
> back into rawhide. Then, the individual maintainers for whatever remains
> broken in rawhide will be able to rebuild them.

Ok, thanks.