Bug 121088

Summary:	g-cpan.pl - unable to load Class-DBI modules (Class-DBI-v)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jonathan Manning <jmanning>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Michael Cummings (RETIRED) <mcummings>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	hansmi
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	g-cpan
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	allow "v-string" style version numbers in g-cpan dependancies Updated patch

Description Jonathan Manning 2006-01-31 12:54:24 UTC

When trying to install Class-DBI modules, g-cpan fails when it is unable to find Class-DBI-v. This is simply because Class-DBI uses v in it's version string - Class-DBI-v3.0.1.

The attached patch modifies portage_dir to correct this bug for Class::DBI (and, in theory, similarly named packages)

Comment 1 Jonathan Manning 2006-01-31 12:55:49 UTC

Created attachment 78587 [details, diff]
allow "v-string" style version numbers in g-cpan dependancies

Comment 2 Michael Hanselmann (hansmi) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-02-18 15:23:21 UTC

Created attachment 80128 [details, diff]
Updated patch

I hit this bug as well.

My updated patch also patches another regular expression in the function create_ebuild().

Comment 3 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-04-14 06:37:09 UTC

ok, the patch for -v* versions has been applied (thanks hansmi :) - but the rest of this bug is bogus even if it highlights a bug (ironically). Class-DBI is handled in dev-perl/Class-DBI - g-cpan isn't actually writing an ebuild for it. Even double checked, and I added it March 31 2004 to portage. Not sure how you ran into this otherwise valid bug.