Re: [HEADS UP] perl 5.32 vs. pkgin

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 04:18:17PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> When you upgrade to perl-5.32 with pkgin, please make sure to delete
> p5-Time-HiRes and p5-DB_File first (if you have them installed).
> 
> Otherwise the update will fail badly, since pkgin has no SUPERSEDES
> support yet.

I've fixed this now.

pkgsrc contained a lot of p5-* packages for code that has been
included in perl itself for some years now. There was no real point to
them in most cases; at some point in the past the p5-* package might
have contained newer code than the code included in perl itself, but
at least at this point in time, the packages included in perl are new
enough for all packages in pkgsrc.

So I removed these p5-* packages now. If something needs to run the
code, it is still there as part of the perl package.

Additionally, lang/perl5 contained CONFLICTS lines for the p5-*
packages. I guess this was to avoid having installed unnecessary
packages (since the version included in perl was newer) but right now
it just caused unnecessary breakage. And in the pkgsrc sense, there
was no conflict, since the code was installed in different paths in
the file system (under vendor_perl for the p5-* versions).

Please upgrade directly to perl-5.32.0nb1 if you have any of the
following packages installed. It should work automatically without any issues.

You can then remove the p5-* packages, they are not useful any longer.

archivers/p5-Archive-Tar
converters/p5-JSON-PP
converters/p5-MIME-Base64
converters/p5-Unicode-Collate
converters/p5-Unicode-Normalize
databases/p5-DB_File
devel/p5-AutoLoader
devel/p5-CPAN
devel/p5-CPAN-Meta
devel/p5-CPAN-Meta-Requirements
devel/p5-CPAN-Meta-YAML
devel/p5-Compress-Raw-Bzip2
devel/p5-Compress-Raw-Zlib
devel/p5-Devel-PPPort
devel/p5-ExtUtils-CBuilder
devel/p5-ExtUtils-Command
devel/p5-ExtUtils-MakeMaker
devel/p5-ExtUtils-Manifest
devel/p5-ExtUtils-ParseXS
devel/p5-File-Path
devel/p5-File-Temp
devel/p5-Getopt-Long
devel/p5-IO-Compress
devel/p5-IO-Zlib
devel/p5-IPC-Cmd
devel/p5-IPC-SysV
devel/p5-Memoize
devel/p5-Module-CoreList
devel/p5-Module-Load
devel/p5-Module-Metadata
devel/p5-NEXT
devel/p5-Parse-CPAN-Meta
devel/p5-Pod-Usage
devel/p5-Storable
devel/p5-Term-ANSIColor
devel/p5-Term-Cap
devel/p5-Term-ReadLine
devel/p5-Test-Harness
devel/p5-Test-Simple
devel/p5-Tie-RefHash
devel/p5-XSLoader
devel/p5-autodie
devel/p5-experimental
devel/p5-parent
devel/p5-version
math/p5-Math-Complex
misc/p5-Locale-Maketext
misc/p5-Locale-Maketext-Simple
security/p5-Digest
security/p5-Digest-MD5
security/p5-Digest-SHA
sysutils/p5-Sys-Syslog
textproc/p5-Encode
textproc/p5-Pod-Escapes
textproc/p5-Pod-Simple
textproc/p5-Text-Tabs+Wrap
time/p5-Time-HiRes
time/p5-Time-Local
time/p5-Time-Piece
www/p5-HTTP-Tiny

Cheers,
 Thomas