Bug 21751 – perl 5.8.0 masked

• Status: VERIFIED LATER
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Alex Buell 2003-05-27 02:25:49 UTC]

default-1.0 has perl restricted to perl 5.6. Should this be changed to allow
perl 5.8 to be used?

[Comment 1 Robert Coie (RETIRED) 2003-05-28 04:17:27 UTC]

There are still some architectures that have not declared 5.8 stable.

[Comment 2 Alex Buell 2003-05-28 10:20:12 UTC]

x86 looks stable enough to me.

[Comment 3 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) 2003-06-02 06:02:44 UTC]

Let's confirm we have an upgrade schema before unmasking for default-1.0. The last time we unmasked for the 1.4's, it was a nightmare.

[Comment 4 Gentoo Perl team 2003-06-10 04:15:21 UTC]

Keep this locked for now.

[Comment 5 Alex Buell 2003-06-10 04:27:42 UTC]

Fair enough. I decided to upgrade the 1.2 gentoo box to 1.4 instead of waiting. IMHO, it's the best way to get Perl 5.8.0. 

[Comment 6 Gentoo Perl team 2003-06-10 04:41:24 UTC]

The real issue here is having a clean way to *complete* the upgrade. There is the libperl_rebuilder, which is really just a hack attempt at isolating installed components that use the old libperl.so, as well as perl modules, and re-emerge them. Until there is a smooth way to upgrade without inflicting damage (libperl_rebuilder is decent, but it has its hickups) I think we should keep this locked. 

And a clean box always wins :)

[Comment 7 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) 2005-07-18 03:06:42 UTC]

Since 5.8.6 is now the current stable, going to go ahead and mark this lost bug
as closed :)