Re: Some perl and ruby breakage ahead...

On Wednesday, 11 January 2012 00:40:24 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> 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).

I note that Mageia Cauldron has had perl 5.14 since June 2011:

http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/perl/current/

They may also have some patches, but in the case of perl-URPM, may have 
already diverged too far due to rpm-4.9 vs rpm5.

Regards,
Buchan