[Mageia-dev] perl 5.14.0 should arrive soon

[Jerome Quelin]

hi,

perl 5.14.0 should arrive soon. it compiles fine on both i586 & x86_64,
and it seem we fixed the only problem arisen in perl-URPM.

since other packages need to be rebuilt in the same loop, and given that
urpmi is written in perl, it needs a special treatment to bypass the
regular bs upload.

blino will likely do this magic dance & upload them in the coming hours -
you may want to wait till his final go before updating your cauldron
box.

once this is done, it's still not time to update the perl modules to
their latest version: binary perl modules need to be rebuilt against
perl 5.14. to get the list:

    $ urpmf --requires :perlapi-5.12 | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u

there are 364 of them at the time of speaking. and of course some of
them need to be rebuilt before others. [0]

==>  help is welcome to rebuild them [1]

to rebuild one of those binary packages:
    1- wait for blino to announce perl 5.14.0 availability
    2- check out the package
    3- bump mkrel in package spec file
    4- mgarepo submit
    5- if build fails on bs, then it's likely that a missing binary
       module is missing: proceed the missing package

thanks,
jérôme 

[0] note to self: i'll create a "magpie sort" command to order those...
but it's a bit too late for now. it'll be ready for perl 5.16 in one
year! :-)
[1] i should not be able to work on it this week-end, so feel free to
give it a try.