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peets

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[SOLVED] perl 5.10 to 5.12 and now my modules won't load

I just installed perl 5.12 from testing.

See:

~ $ perl -e 'use DateTime;'
Can't locate DateTime.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/share/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/core_perl /usr/share/perl5/core_perl /usr/lib/perl5/current /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/current .) at -e line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.
~ $ ls /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/
5.10.1
~ $ ls /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/
CatLog.pm  DateTime  DateTime.pm  DateTimePP.pm  DateTimePPExtra.pm  Jamget.pm  Jaminfo.pm  Jamnew.pm  Jamnext.pm  auto
~ $

It seems I should copy 5.10.1 to 5.12 and create a symlink to 5.12.1 called 'current'? Will I break things if I do this? I'ma go read on perldoc.org.

Last edited by peets (2010-05-11 20:13:50)

wonder

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Re: [SOLVED] perl 5.10 to 5.12 and now my modules won't load

please report on our bugtracker

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peets

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Re: [SOLVED] perl 5.10 to 5.12 and now my modules won't load

Wait I'm dumb the packages I had in site_perl/5.10.1 were stuff I put there manually a long time ago. This is all my fault. Solution:

# mv -n /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/DateTime* /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl   ### see Perl Package Guidelines on wiki
# mkdir /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.0
# ln -s !$ /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/current
# mv /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/* !$

I'll write a feature request for the "current" symlink to be created/updated on perl upgrade, or for "current" to be removed from @INC.

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Re: [SOLVED] perl 5.10 to 5.12 and now my modules won't load

Testing packages > Testing subforum please.

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juster

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Re: [SOLVED] perl 5.10 to 5.12 and now my modules won't load

Just a trivial nit-pick here... but you might be creating a future problem.  It can be a bad idea, moving files from the site_perl directory to the vendor_perl directory.  vendor_perl is reserved for packaged perl modules.  If you install the perl-datetime package it will complain about already existing files.

Since DateTime is manually installed I'd recommend sticking to the site_perl directory for the destination.  Then again you might never need to install the perl-datetime package and this could never crop up...

peets

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Re: [SOLVED] perl 5.10 to 5.12 and now my modules won't load

I installed perl-datetime through pacman a long time ago, when packaging policies were different maybe? I don't quite remember.

 $ pacman -Q perl-datetime
perl-datetime 0.55-2

Maybe I should remove that and install it with cpanp.