Bug 485224 – dev-perl/Daemon-Control - create init scripts in perl

• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description DaggyStyle 2013-09-17 17:50:57 UTC]

I;m attaching an ebuild for module Daemon-Control in perl that I tried the other day

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 DaggyStyle 2013-09-17 17:51:21 UTC]

Created attachment 358888 [details]
Daemon-Control-0.001004.ebuild

[Comment 2 Kent Fredric (IRC: kent\n) (RETIRED) 2013-09-18 07:57:09 UTC]

Just a heads up.

In Gentoo, we have to normalise perl module versions, because Perl version sematics are almost opposite to Gentoo version sematics, and as such, Perl modules are a special case where the recommendation is *NOT* to match upstream versioning closely. 

There's a tool that makes this straightforward, dev-perl/Gentoo-PerlMod-Version

> $ gentoo-perlmod-version.pl 0.001004
> 0.001004 => 0.1.4

So Daemon-Control-0.001004 should enter Gentoo as Daemon-Control-0.1.4.ebuild

[Comment 3 Kent Fredric (IRC: kent\n) (RETIRED) 2013-09-18 08:06:02 UTC]

Looking at https://metacpan.org/source/SYMKAT/Daemon-Control-0.001004/META.yml also indicates you've missed a few dependencies:

DEPEND should include >=virtual/perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.590.0  or it may silently fail on <=perl-5.15

RDEPEND and DEPEND should both include >=virtual/perl-File-Path-2.08 , or it will likely fail on <=perl-5.11  ( which is masked for removal, but still in tree )

[Comment 4 Kent Fredric (IRC: kent\n) (RETIRED) 2013-09-18 08:17:23 UTC]

Oh, And DESCRIPTION=  should just be DESCRIPTION="Create init scripts in Perl"

Otherwise stuff like 

eix -c dev-perl/Daemon-Control will say:


[N] dev-perl/Daemon-Control (~0.1.4): Perl Daemon-Control - Create init scripts in Perl 


^ which is redundant information.

[Comment 5 DaggyStyle 2013-09-19 07:09:49 UTC]

thanks for the tips, I just wanted to install it via portage and not via cpan, I've assumed that someone will take the lead on this.

btw, is there a script that creates such perl modules ebuilds, from what I can understand it is quite straight forward creating a basic ebuild

[Comment 6 Kent Fredric (IRC: kent\n) (RETIRED) 2013-09-19 08:53:15 UTC]

there is app-portage/g-cpan, but the quality of ebuilds it produces are not really portage-tree suitable.

If you're primarily doing perl development however, the recommendation is that you *NOT* rely on the Gentoo toolchain for that.

If you're doing that, there are 2 recommended approaches:

1. Install a perl in ~/  using dev-perl/App-perlbrew from ::perl-experimental{,-snapshots}

2. Use dev-perl/local-lib ( also ::perl-experimental{,-snapshots} ) to provide a user-oriented install path.

And the recommendation is that you use one of the above in conjunction with dev-perl/App-cpanminus, and install and develop things using a strictly CPAN toolchain.

[Comment 7 Ettore Di Giacinto (RETIRED) 2014-07-21 13:44:10 UTC]

taking it, opened a pull request on the perl-experimental overlay https://github.com/gentoo-perl/perl-experimental/pull/20

[Comment 8 Andreas K. Hüttel 2014-10-26 22:04:04 UTC]

Is anyone still interested in this? Where is it used?

[Comment 9 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) 2014-12-07 15:29:45 UTC]

Seems not.