[arch-dev-public] [signoff] db-4.8.24-1

[Allan McRae]

Firmicus wrote:
> Allan McRae a écrit :
>   
>> Firmicus wrote:
>>     
>>> Allan McRae a écrit :
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> It is time to signoff on the db-4.8 rebuild.  This also covers these
>>>> packages from [core]
>>>>
>>>> heimdal
>>>> iproute2
>>>> libsasl
>>>> pam
>>>> perl (version bump)
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> mod_perl must be rebuilt as well. See FS#16392.
>>> I will take care of it.
>>>
>>> However, perl 5.10.1 is not quite ready to go, because the issue with
>>> libperl.so (FS#10971) is not yet settled.
>>> Actually, I think we can nevertheless go forward with perl as it is in
>>> testing (i.e. even with a not necessarily useful libperl.so), and fix
>>> that later.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Is that and irssi the only packages needing rebuilt for the perl update?
>>
>>     
> IIRC rxvt-unicode and vim embed perl and probably do also need to be
> rebuilt... Kevin should know better than I do. The update from 5.8 to
> 5.10 necessitated more rebuilds, but here it is a minor update, so that
> perl modules with binary libraries should not necessitate a rebuild. I'd
> really like to release 5.10.1, as I am not quite happy with 5.10.0
> (because of the incomplete provides array and the fact that 5.10.0 was
> quite heavily patched). I'm ready to help with the perl rebuilds for
> both arches, of course.
>   

Is there any easy way to scan packages to see if they need rebuilt?  A 
grep for "5.10.0" maybe....

That seems to work:
 > tar -xf /var/cache/pacman/pkg/mod_perl-2.0.4-5-i686.pkg.tar.gz
 > grep -R "5.10.0" *
Binary file usr/lib/httpd/modules/mod_perl.so matches

Anybody want to do a quick scan of the repos?   I will not have time for 
the next day or two.

Allan