Re: Some perl and ruby breakage ahead...

On 2012-01-09 21:59, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:
> perl has backwards compatibility though, so should usually not cause
> that heavy breakage
> for packages built against older versions.. :)

As expected, that backwards compatibility doesn't really work - it 
always worked well for perl modules written in perl, but never worked 
too well between bigger updates for stuff that uses the C<->Perl 
interface.

5.12.x -> 5.14.x is no exception:

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -q perl
perl-5.14.2-1-mdv2012.0.i586
[root@localhost ~]# urpmi
/usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/URPM/URPM.so: 
undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr

Most of the packages broken by this simply need a rebuild though, some 
will need minor tweaking (most of which we can steal from the Ark 
repositories, I've done the 5.14 update there a while back).

ttyl
bero