Bug 516636

Summary:	=virtual/perl-ExtUtils-Install-1.580.0-r1 stabilization (NONTRIVIAL)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge>
Component:	[OLD] Keywording and Stabilization	Assignee:	Gentoo Perl team <perl>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	STABLEREQ
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2014-07-07 20:10:44 UTC

Even though this is about stabilizing a virtual, the effect is NONTRIVIAL. 
Please test a lot before stabilizing! Details follow.

Right now, because of screwed up and unmaintained virtuals, on every stable system (running perl-5.16) a version of ExtUtils::Install is pulled in that originally comes from perl-5.10 (!). That version shadows the bundled one. ExtUtils::Install is part of the Perl build system.

Updating the virtual from current stable to =virtual/perl-ExtUtils-Install-1.580.0-r1 will force removal of the old version (perl-core/ExtUtils-Install-1.540.0), which means that the bundled version of perl-5.16 is used. 

Tests should include re-installing many perl packages and checking for abnormalities. Thanks a lot.

Please TEST and stabilize =virtual/perl-ExtUtils-Install-1.580.0-r1
Target: all stable arches

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-07-12 12:37:14 UTC

Stable for HPPA.

Comment 2 Tom Gall (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-07-13 04:33:19 UTC

stable arm64

Comment 3 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) archtester

2014-07-13 09:31:05 UTC

amd64 stable

Comment 4 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) archtester

2014-07-13 09:43:52 UTC

x86 stable

Comment 5 Markus Meier gentoo-dev

2014-07-27 19:08:06 UTC

arm stable

Comment 6 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) archtester

2014-08-02 11:54:33 UTC

alpha/ia64/ppc/ppc64/sparc stable