rawhide vendorarch?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 12/07/2010 04:57 PM, Marcela Mašláňová wrote:
> On 12/07/2010 02:48 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Could somebody explain this change between f14 and f15?
>>
>> f14: perl -V:vendorarch
>> vendorarch='/usr/lib64/perl5';
>> f15:  perl -V:vendorarch
>> vendorarch='/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl';
>>
>> This causes f15 to install their vendorarch'ed modules under
>> /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl
>> instead of
>> /usr/lib64/perl5
>>
>>
>> I.e. rebuilding packages under f15/rawhide causes perl-modules to move
>> from /usr/lib64/perl5 to /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl
>>
>> E.g.:
>> # rpm -qlp perl-HTTP-Server-Simple-0.43-1.fc14.noarch.rpm
>> /usr/share/perl5/HTTP/Server/Simple.pm
>> /usr/share/perl5/HTTP/Server/Simple/CGI.pm
>> /usr/share/perl5/HTTP/Server/Simple/CGI/Environment.pm
>>
>> # rpm -qlp perl-HTTP-Server-Simple-0.43-1.fc15.noarch.rpm
>> /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/HTTP/Server/Simple.pm
>> /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/HTTP/Server/Simple/CGI.pm
>> /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/HTTP/Server/Simple/CGI/Environment.pm
>>
>> In generaly, I fail to understand why "vendor_perl" is necessary and why
>> this change was introduced to f15.
>>
>>
>> Also, I am facing FTBS errors, which I suspect to be related to this
>> f14->f15 change and to rawhide currently containing a mixture of
>> perl-packages using vendorarch=/usr/share/perl5 and others
>> vendorarch=/usr/share/perl5/vendor_arch.
>>
>>
>> Ralf
>>
>>
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>
> Hello,
> I sent email in July about that:
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/perl-devel/2010-July/024634.html
I vaguely remember this proposal :)

> I applied the patch in September, because I completely forgot about that
>
> email. The idea was install all modules into core directory
> /usr/lib64/perl5 or /usr/share/perl5. The vendorarch directory
>
> /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perlshould beempty.
Well, what I am observing is the opposite of what you describe.

f15-built modules land in %{_libdir}/perl5/vendor_perl
while
f14-built modules land in %{_libdir}/perl5,

That's why I am wondering - Has a bug crept into perl's setup?

> If core and vendor
>
> are the same as it is in F-14, then it's non-existent module looked up
> twice in the same
>
> path without luck.
>
> So, my suggestion is change all modules to install into core directories and
>
> leave vendorarch empty for personal RPMs, which also cut down time for
> looking up

How comes, f14 already did so and f15 has stopped doing so?

I am confused.

> modules. (Empty vendorarch toke less then core twice).
>
> There were questions in some new reviews if it's good idea to replace
> vendor with core,
>
> because they could be needed in future. I'm looking forward your
> comments/ideas.

Ralf