Re: pkg/43558: pkgsrc perl is broken on many systems

[Jens Rehsack <rehsack%googlemail.com@localhost>]

On 07/02/10 13:15, asau%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
> > Number:         43558
> > Category:       pkg
> > Synopsis:       pkgsrc perl is broken on many systems
> > Confidential:   no
> > Severity:       non-critical
> > Priority:       low
> > Responsible:    pkg-manager
> > State:          open
> > Class:          change-request
> > Submitter-Id:   net
> > Arrival-Date:   Fri Jul 02 13:15:00 +0000 2010
> > Originator:     Aleksej Saushev
> > Release:
> > Organization:
> > Environment:
> FreeBSD, but it doesn't matter
> > Description:
> $ perl -e 'use Filesys::DiskFree; my $df = new Filesys::DiskFree; $df->df();'
> No df command known for format freebsd at -e line 1
>
> When you look into ${PREFIX}/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/Filesys/DiskFree.pm
> you'll find that many systems are just not supported.
> > How-To-Repeat:
> perl -e 'use Filesys::DiskFree; my $df = new Filesys::DiskFree; $df->df();'
> > Fix:
> Rewrite part of DiskFree.pm?

If I take a look at
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Filesys-DiskFree 
(especially RT#6085), this is an upstream issue and no pkgsrc problem.

Filesys::DiskFree is unmaintained since 1998 - I suggest we remove it
from pkgsrc (even if I cannot find it by name), we have with
- sysutils/p5-Filesys-Df and
- sysutils/p5-Filesys-DfPortable
good replacements.

Jens