[Mageia-dev] "magpie old" to list non up-to-date perl modules

Wed Mar 9 13:41:22 CET 2011

hi,
+
+the final stone is now built for magpie: it's possible to list on your mageia
+system the perl modules that have up to date versions upstream. it allows to
+see at a glance which perl packages need to be updated. it's based on cpanplus,
+and only tackles perl modules installed on your system.
+
+the new command is:
+
+    $ magpie old
+    ** core packages: 11
+
+    Devel::DProf                             20080331.00 20110228.00
+    Devel::SelfStubber                              1.03        1.05
+    [...]
+    if                                              0.05      0.0601
+
+    ** normal packages: 57
+
+    DateTime::TimeZone                              1.28        1.29     perl-DateTime-TimeZone                                 1.280.0
+    Digest::SHA                                     5.50        5.60     perl-Digest-SHA                                        5.500.0
+    [...]
+    parent                                         0.224       0.225     perl-parent                                            0.224.0
+
+    ** orphan packages: 7
+
+    KENTNL                                      0.010173Dist::Zilla…
+    [...]
+    inc::latest                                   0.3624        0.38
+
+    ** strange packages: 3
+
+    App::cpanminus                                1.2001      1.4002     cpanminus(1.200.100),perl-App-cpanminus(1.200.100)
+    HTTP::Response                                  6.00        6.01     perl-libwww-perl(5.837.0),perl-Test-Mock-LWP(0.50.0),perl-HTTP-Message(6.0.0)
+    Perl::MinimumVersion                            1.27        1.28     perl-Perl-MinimumVersion(1.270.0),perl-Perl-Critic-Pulp(47.0.0)
+
+    ** ignored modules: 12
+
+    Boulder::Unigene(28051999.00), File::MimeInfo::Rox(0.20), Getopt::Lucid(0.19), HTML::Table(2.08), Imager::Font::Type1(1.011), Inline::Python(0.38), Lingua::Features(0.30), Parse::RecDescent::FAQ::Original(6.00), Switch(2.16), Tie::Watch(1.301), WebFetch(0.13), XML::Grove(0.46)
+
+
+the columns are: module, old version, new version, mageia package name, mageia
+package version.
+
+as you can see, the modules are sorted in various categories:
+    core - modules shipped with perl (or perl-base)
+    dual-lifed (not shown above) - modules that are both shipped with perl (or
+        perl-base) and as a stand-alone package
+    normal - regular modules with their own package
+    orphan - modules that do not belong to a mageia package (either inherited
+        from mandriva, or not yet pushed on buildsystem).
+    strange - modules that belong to more than one magiea package
+    ignore - those are modules that either cannot be built (with an upstream
+        bug) or that confuse cpanplus when comparing versions
+
+
+with this information, it's therefore very straightforward to update the
+packages, launching the following command as needed:
+
+    $ eval $( magpie co -s $pkg ) && magpie update
+
+of course, since all the building blocks are now available, that's what
+the last command to be implemented (magpie dwim) will do! 
+
+jérôme 
+-- 
+jquelin at gmail.com
+