[arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

[Florian Pritz]

On 03.07.2011 07:45, Steve Holmes wrote:
>> This is what I did:
>> pacman -Qm | grep "^perl-" > perlpkgs
>> pacman -Rcs $(<perlpkgs)
> 
> Once the perlpkgs file was built, I had to go in and manually remove
> all the version numbers; otherwise, pacman threw errors; it could not
> recognize them as additional packages.
> 

Oops, that should have been pacman -Qqm.

>> use cpanp to reinstall everything in perlpkgs that you still need
> 
> Do you need to be root to do this installation?  I ask this because
> after building the .cpanplus resources under my home directory, I
> figured I would have to do 'cpanp -i Net::Twitter' from my normal user
> account.  But nothing got installed and the packages all complained
> about missing dependencies.  I read the documentation (what little
> there was) and I can't figure out what else I need to do to get this
> working.  It appears a bunch of packages got download and expanded
> into ./cpanplus/lib/5.14.1 but they all failed because none of the
> other dependencies were installed yet.
> 
> What do I need to do here?

I had the problem that old packages interfered with the dependency
resolution and led to build failures for the new ones. If you have
anything left over (aur packages, old ones install by cpan), try
removing that.

This might be solved quicker if you ask folks on irc.

-- 
Florian Pritz

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