I have/had an issue with "perl-cleaner --reallyall" forcing me to downgrade perl while I just upgraded it from 5.10.1 to 5.12.1-r1. Originally I thought I have libperl vs. perl version problem but that was not the case, and anyway, as I was told libperl is an empty virtual package not installing any files. The story started here in bug #329339#c16 . It seems the culprit is found now (thanks to Torsten), whether it is an issue with perl-cleaner or some mis-written .ebuild of one of my perl-based packages requring specifically some old perl version I do not know. Details below: (In reply to bug #329339#c18) > (In reply to bug #329339#c17) > > What do you think about this?: > > > > # perl-cleaner --reallyall > > > perl-core/Test-Harness:0 perl-core/Time-HiRes:0 virtual/perl-Time-HiRes:0 > > I wonder why there is no virtual/perl-Test-Harness:0 in the list. Add it to > the list and run emerge manually again. Yes, that helps, I did not run exact diff but I see two changes: [ebuild N ] perl-core/ExtUtils-Install-1.54 66 kB [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-Test-Harness-3.21 [3.17] 0 kB while there is no downgrade from perl-5.12.1 to 5.10.1 requested anymore (great!). > > Why two versions of Test-Harness-3.17 and 3.21? Is that the reason why > > perl-5.10.1 is to be installed and is constantly causing me troubles? > > I've seen this when perl-cleaner was interrupted. That was not my cause. # emerge --info Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.34-default x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.34-default-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9650_@_3.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:30:01 +0000 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p7 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r4, 2.6.5-r3, 3.1.2-r4 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6-r1, 1.5, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.3.5, 4.4.4-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.34 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA dlj-1.1 sun-bcla-java-vm" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=nocona" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/spool/torque" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=nocona" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news nostrip parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en cs cz" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X amd64 berkdb bzip2 cracklib crypt cxx dbus dri fontconfig fortran gdbm gnutls hal iconv innodb java jce jpeg jpg kde laptop mmx modules mpi mpich2 multilib mysql ncurses nfs nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin opengl openmp openssl pam pcre perl png python qt3support qt4 readline server session sse sse2 ssl suexec svg sysfs syslog tcpd threads tiff truetype unicode usb xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en cs cz" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Will be fixed in perl-cleaner-2.3.
In the tree. Please test. Thanks
