Subject: Re: Pending perl changes
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Geoff Wing <mason@primenet.com.au>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 07/16/2005 01:13:54
Johnny C. Lam <jlam@netbsd.org> typed:
: I'm going to be committing my massive Perl changes next week.  I've
: attached a diff of lang/perl5 for people that want to look it over
: and test it.

1) Had 3 failed tests.  Will reproduce if required.

2) Also, what's with
  Installing manpages to "/usr/pkg/lib/perl5/man":
where previously they'd go to "/usr/pkg/man" (mail/mhonarc did this and failed
on PLIST stuff)?

3) mail/spamassasin is installing in
  /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/
where previously it would go in 
  /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/
but PLIST is properly determined.  This looks like a deliberate change to
allow updating perl without updating the local packages that depend upon it,
however this doesn't really make sense with our pkgsrc system (unless you
force a perl update in place).

Everything else seems to be OK so far.  Will continue checking.

Thanks,
Geoff