| Summary: | perl 5.8.0 masked | ||
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| Product: | Portage Development | Reporter: | Alex Buell <alex.buell> |
| Component: | Unclassified | Assignee: | Gentoo Perl team <perl> |
| Status: | VERIFIED LATER | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | releng |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | x86 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Description
Alex Buell
2003-05-27 02:25:49 UTC
There are still some architectures that have not declared 5.8 stable. x86 looks stable enough to me. 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. Keep this locked for now. 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. 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 :) Since 5.8.6 is now the current stable, going to go ahead and mark this lost bug as closed :) |
