new release of Perl

[Paul Howarth]

On 05/30/2012 09:42 AM, Petr Pisar wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 03:36:15PM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> On 05/25/2012 03:52 PM, Marcela Mašláňová wrote:
>>> Hi Perl SIG,
>>> as you probably already found out the new Perl 5.16.0 was released.
>>> http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg186903.html
>>>
>>> The perl-5.16.0 is now building fine in scratch. You can find it in rc
>>> branch of our Fedora perl git. More details about annual rebuild will be
>>> next week.
>>> I forgot fix versions of sub-packages in the specfile, I'll do it next
>>> week. We might also put more modules into their own sub-packages.
>>
>> Is the plan to do a "clean" rebuild of all perl modules, not pulling
>> in any built for perl 5.14.x? If so, I think the
>> perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.14.*) provides should be dropped in the 5.16.0
>> package, just to make sure that old modules don't get in.
>>
> That's the plan. I started some dry-runs using mock (new Fedora::Rebuild 0.9.0
> feature) and discovered this will not work because of:
>
> (1) YUM cannot install dual-lived module from perl-5.16.spec just because it's
> lower version than the standalone dual-lived package (yes, perl-5.16 did not
> merged all updates from CPAN). It crashes on installing minimal buildroot.
>
> (2) There are dependenices by git and rpmbuild which will require modules in
> minimal build-root.
>
> So we need to rebuild those packages before removing old COMPAT Provide.
>
> We have already set up f18-perl build-root in Koji for the mass rebuild. I'd
> like start the rebuild in a few day once I resolve these issues.

Is it not possible to untag the problematic packages from f18-perl in koji?

Paul.