RFE: change perl dependencies of rpm, rpm45, rpm50, rpm51

[MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)]

With your permission, I would like to change the perl dependencies of the
various rpm packages from

port:perl5.8
to
path:bin/perl:perl5

See #16830 for the reasons.

[afb@…]

If the "perl5" port is just a placeholder yet, then there is no need to change either ?

[MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)]

Right now, perl5 is just a placeholder.

But, as descibed in #16830, perl5.8 will stop installing ${prefix}/bin/perl some
time after all ports have transitioned to the path:bin/perl:perl5 dependency.

[afb@…]

Replying to mcalhoun@…:

Right now, perl5 is just a placeholder.

But, as descibed in #16830, perl5.8 will stop installing ${prefix}/bin/perl some
time after all ports have transitioned to the path:bin/perl:perl5 dependency.

Changing to __PERL=${prefix}/bin/perl5.8.8 to work when perl is deleted from perl5.8

[MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)]

Replying to afb@…:

Changing to __PERL=${prefix}/bin/perl5.8.8 to work when perl is deleted from perl5.8

May I suggest that you use PERL=${prefix}/bin/perl5.8.8 since I would imagine perl5.8 will be upgraded to perl 5.8.9
when it comes out.

[MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)]

Sorry.
I meant

__PERL=${prefix}/bin/perl5.8

[afb@…]

Replying to mcalhoun@…:

Sorry.
I meant

__PERL=${prefix}/bin/perl5.8

Forgot that MacPorts adds a custom symlink, upstream only has the "perl" and "perlX.Y.Z" ones.

[afb@…]

rpm-devel (5.2) was using a versioned binary already (perl5.8.8, now perl5.8 symlink)

The others (4.4,4.5,5.0,5.1) still use "perl" but will be changed with perl5/perl5.8.

[MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)]

Replying to afb@…:

rpm-devel (5.2) was using a versioned binary already (perl5.8.8, now perl5.8 symlink)

The others (4.4,4.5,5.0,5.1) still use "perl" but will be changed with perl5/perl5.8.

Forgive me, but just to clarify the situation:

You want all of the rpm packages to use perl5.8?
rpm51 and rpm50 need to change to

__PERL=${prefix}/bin/perl5.8

rpm and rpm45 need to require that ${prefix}/bin/perl5.8 is used.
rpm-devel is already fixed.

Can we go ahead and make the changes now to facilitate the transition to perl5?

[afb@…]

Fixed all rpm5 ports, "need" to do both perl/python for the previous rpms.

[afb@…]

Fixed, r45646 and r45647.

No longer using "perl" and "python", but setting the explicit versions. (but require the perl5.8 upgrade*, to provide the perl5.8 symbolic link)

• ​http://trac.macports.org/changeset/38067

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