Re: Testers wanted for lang/perl5 update to version 5.12.1

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 24 May 2010, Stoned Elipot wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to update the pkgsrc/lang/perl5 package to the
> 5.12.1 version of Perl.
>
> I have tested an updated package on NetBSD/i386 5.0.2.
>
> On this platform and with this updated package installed I
> tested (make test, make install)  devel/p5-Moose,
> www/p5-Plack and all their "p5-packages" dependencies.
>
> I plan to test NetBSD/i386 current and NetBSD/sparc64 5.*.
>
> I would like to hear about tests on other platforms.
>
> People interested could grab an archive of my update at
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/seb/perl5-5.12.1-pkg.tgz
>
> It contains the perl5  pkgsrc directory, perl5/, so move away your
> existing pkgsrc/lang/perl5 directory and extract the archive into the
> pkgsrc/lang directory. Then try to 'make test' it and even perhaps
> 'make install' it.
>
> Please note that all p5-packages build against perl 5.10.* package(s)
> are not compatible with this updated perl5 package and need to be
> rebuild.


pkg_rolling-replace worked for me after updating this and p5-version.

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