juster / archpkg-perl

Build system for Archlinux perl package.

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PERL PKGBUILD

Here is a repo to generate, and hopefully later, test the perl 5.12 package for Archlinux.

Right now there is not much to it. Just run “make.pl” to generate a PKGBUILD, clean old package directories, and build a new package.

Figure out a way to install into a sandbox.

I would rather not break my system to see if the PKGBUILD “works”.

Create some automated tests to test the core perl packages

File List

Filename	Purpose
dump_provides.pl	Tests the PerlProvides.pm module.
make.pl	Clean the build process, then make package.
perlbin.sh	The unchanged perlbin.sh.
PerlProvides.pm	Module for generating PKGBUILD provides.
PKGBUILD.tt	The PKGBUILD template (its only var is provides).
PKGBUILD	The generated PKGBUILD.

PerlProvides.pm

PerlProvides.pm is not perfect. Right now we lookup modules on CPAN, using CPANPLUS. However, this is looking up the latest module versions. I haven’t yet figured out how to only lookup the module versions specified by Module::CoreList.

perl.install

I removed the perl.install file. Why are we deleting files? Shouldn’t we be removing packages instead? What if those files belong to packages?

Author

Justin Davis <juster at cpan dot org>