Re: Ikiwiki success story

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Bob Bernstein <poobah%ruptured-duck.com@localhost> writes:

> On Sun, 20 Oct 2019, Amitai Schleier wrote:
>
>> If it ever happens again, and you can narrow down what took it from
>> working to borked, we might find something needing fixing.
>
> Something connected to the large number of perl modules that are used
> to build ikiwiki. I mean a _very_ large number of 'em. That, and
> getting caught on the cusp of a transition from one minor version of
> perl to the next. As they say in Downtown Providence (RI), "I dunno
> me."

If you did a partial cvs update, then "don't do that".

If you did a full cvs update, then you either have to
  bulk build and replace
  pkg_rr -uv (and fix all issues)
  something equivalent

problems arising from having an installed tree out of sync with the
source tree are perhaps in some cases pkgsrc bugs, but my view is that
it's not really worth spending time debugging that.