684720 – dev-perl/XML-SAX should install ParserDetails.ini

Bug 684720 - dev-perl/XML-SAX should install ParserDetails.ini

Summary: dev-perl/XML-SAX should install ParserDetails.ini

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 456938

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Gentoo Perl team

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Reported:	2019-04-29 10:30 UTC by Mike Lothian
Modified:	2019-10-25 05:43 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

See Also:	456938 168988 509096
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Description Mike Lothian 2019-04-29 10:30:46 UTC

Hi

Would it be possible to create a blank ParserDetails.ini file earlier in the ebuild that could then be updated in the post install step?

Having it tracked by portage would mean when upgrading perl versions it wouldn't be left behind in /usr/lib64/perl5/

Thanks

Comment 1 Kent Fredric (IRC: kent\n) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2019-04-29 10:43:35 UTC

Unfortunately it doesn't really work that way. That file is generated by *multiple* packages, and thus, providing it in the ebuild itself would create a file collision.

I have plans to have a sort of package all the packages that *could* update this file would depend on, and *that* package would provide parserdetails.ini, but there's additional work that needs to take place for that to happen, including having some smarter mechanism for setting it up other than "whatever was installed last does something"

Comment 2 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2019-10-25 05:43:38 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 456938 ***