[Mageia-sysadm] possibility to add a package in basesystem-minimal? (long)

Wed Nov 9 18:50:34 CET 2011

On Wed, 09 Nov 2011, Jerome Quelin wrote:
+
+> 
+> to fix this problem, i can see the following solutions:
+> 
+> ** 1. patch our perl to provide a more recent EUMM
+> 
+> this is a no-go from my side. even the perl5 porters aren't updating the
+> bundled modules anymore [8], and i don't want to go down that road. so i
+> veto this solution with my perl-the-package maintainer hat.
+> 
+> 
+> ** 2. update the buildrequires of all perl modules to require a more
+>       recent EUMM
+> 
+> this is a solution that's quite easy to do on my side: i just need to
+> update magpie to buildrequire a more recent EUMM if it's using a
+> makefile.PL and that no specific EUMM version is wanted. future perls
+> (5.16 and onward) will likely ship an updated EUMM, and therefore i'll
+> be able to remove this specific requirement in the spec files.  but i'm
+> wondering if that's not too much, given that it'll need ~1500 [9]
+> modules to be updated. and yes, the goal is to have a standard solution
+> for all modules, not only the problematic ones.
+
+If it's planned to have in the futur other dependencies like this or rpm
+macros to build perl packages, you can also create a new package
+perl-rpmbuild with a require on EUMM (and other required packages to
+build perl packages, if needed), with perl-rpmbuild added as buildrequire
+on all perl packages.
+
+> 
+> 
+> ** 3. do nothing, and just deal with the problems manually
+> 
+> this is the solution i adopted till now. but i bump in more and more of
+> those exceptions, and this is a burden for me. mageia ships more than
+> 2500 perl modules, and usually i don't have to really dwelve in the
+> details of their updates. but each exception is taking some time from my
+> side to deal with, and i fear that the number of problems will just
+> continue to rise. so i'm wanting to quit using this "solution", and find
+> a real one. almost as important, it means that finding a real solution
+> means we are following cpan evolution step by step, and i think it's a
+> Good Thing (tm).
+> 
+> 
+> ** 4. update basesystem-minimal to ship perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker
+> 
+> this way, no need to add a buildrequires for the modules. they all get
+> the new build tool, and therefore will generate the MYMETA files. 
+
+Maybe adding this require to rpm-build instead of basesystem-minimal
+would be enough.
+
+