rebuild of some perl packages

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 12/11/2010 10:25 AM, Iain Arnell wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Marcela Maslanova<mmaslano at redhat.com>  wrote:
>> Hello,
>> because of bug in paths (vendorarch), there will be needed
>> rebuild of some packages (~1300). I choose only those
>> which weren't rebuild with vendorarch in Perl. [1]
Would you please elaborate in detail what you are going to do?

If what I gather between the lines of
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661697#c2
I am expecting the worse.

>> I've asked for testing dist tag, so nothing will be
>> broken [2]. Rebuild will start next week.
>
> Is there something in place to avoid the problems we had last time
> with "older" packages from the rebuild tag overriding "newer" packages
> in dist-f15 itself? And is a separate tag really necessary for this?
> Perl is already looking in both core and vendor directories, so there
> should be no breakage due to modules installed in the "wrong" place.
If the intention is to move all packages to %{_libdir}/perl5/vendor_perl
then a separate tag should not be necessary.

> And I'm still not sure what the intended result is meant to be.
So do I. I feel the way the perl maintainers @redhat.cz are 
communicating with the community leaves much to be desired.

> Are
> you planning to update all the specs to use privlib/archlib so that
> everything ends up in the core directories? Or keeping
> vendorlib/vendorarch and merely rebuilding to move the modules out of
> the core directories again?

Ralf