Bug 422981

Summary:	dev-lang/perl-5.16.0 installs empty directory in /usr/local
Product:	Gentoo/Alt	Reporter:	Dmitri Bogomolov <4glitch>
Component:	FreeBSD	Assignee:	Gentoo Perl team <perl>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial	CC:	qa, ssuominen, tdalman
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	415485

Description Dmitri Bogomolov 2012-06-22 14:45:39 UTC

# equery files dev-lang/perl | grep /usr/local
/usr/local
/usr/local/lib
/usr/local/lib/perl5
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.16.0
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.16.0/i686-freebsd

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester

2012-06-22 15:53:49 UTC

Not BSD specific

Comment 2 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-08-17 11:26:45 UTC

*** Bug 431712 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2012-08-23 21:45:01 UTC

$ qfile -v /usr/local/lib64/perl5/5.16.0/x86_64-linux
dev-lang/perl-5.16.0 (/usr/local/lib64/perl5/5.16.0/x86_64-linux)

Comment 4 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-09-05 11:47:52 UTC

The directory /usr/local/lib64/perl5/ is being used for locally installed perl modules with e.g. cpan, cpanp...

If we'd remove the directory, cpan will report on the first run where it checks whether the directories are writable:

install_help => qq{                                                                                                    
Warning: You do not have write permission for Perl library directories.                                                
                                                                                                                       
To install modules, you need to configure a local Perl library directory or                                            
escalate your privileges.  CPAN can help you by bootstrapping the local::lib                                           
module or by configuring itself to use 'sudo' (if available).  You may also                                            
resolve this problem manually if you need to customize your setup.                                                     
                                                                                                                       
What approach do you want?  (Choose 'local::lib', 'sudo' or 'manual')                                                  
},


What are our options?

Comment 5 Tolga Dalman 2012-12-16 15:22:40 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)

> What are our options?

Go for it ;)

Comment 6 Michael Weiser 2013-02-06 22:59:11 UTC

Your solution of deleting "${D}"/usr/local causes breakage for prefixes living in /usr/local. I've opened a separate bug 455926 for this.

Comment 7 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-03-14 12:48:19 UTC

This has been fixed.

Thanks.