[Mageia-dev] perl 5.14.0 should arrive soon

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2011/6/10 Jerome Quelin <jquelin at gmail.com>:
> 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.
>

Theres a new version for perl-CGI.
I have asked sophie whos the maintainer for perl-CGI wich got no
answer, asked sanders about it and tould me you would be the person
indicated.

regards,
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