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Bug 422981 - dev-lang/perl-5.16.0 installs empty directory in /usr/local
Summary: dev-lang/perl-5.16.0 installs empty directory in /usr/local
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo/Alt
Classification: Unclassified
Component: FreeBSD (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: Normal trivial (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Perl team
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: 431712 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: perl-5.16
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Reported: 2012-06-22 14:45 UTC by Dmitri Bogomolov
Modified: 2013-03-14 12:48 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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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 gentoo-dev Security 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.