Rebuilds for new Perl?
Tom "spot" Callaway
tcallawa at redhat.com
Sun Jan 20 20:31:37 UTC 2008
On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 22:20 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> Sure, but that "Requires: perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.8.8)" should only be in
> packages that install files to /usr/lib*/perl5/[...] . If other packages
> have it, the likelihood of a packaging bug is pretty high I think, but
> nevertheless they do need a rebuild, understood.
>
> But surely not *everything* in the distro that depends on perl needs a
> rebuild? Eg. stuff that just needs /usr/bin/perl or installs some *.pm to
> their application specific paths and nothing to perl's paths (and nothing
> that links with libperl.so)?
Everything that has that Requires needs a rebuild, but that Requires may
not be needed in all the packages where it is present.
I'm not sorting that out right now, just doing a series of rebuilds. :)
~spot
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