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

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

The following reply was made to PR pkg/43558; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jens Rehsack <rehsack%googlemail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: asau%netbsd.org@localhost, pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, 
gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
 pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/43558: pkgsrc perl is broken on many systems
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:26:18 +0000

 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