[OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Miscellaneous component fixes and migrations

[Marcel Telka]

On Sun, Aug 07, 2022 at 09:10:17PM +0200, stes at PANDORA.BE wrote:
> I was thinking that I had to update the runtime/perl-524 dependency,
> to runtime/perl-534, now that perl is version 5.34 by default.

For pari it is no longer needed.  OTOH, there are still ca 30 components
that are waiting for the rebuild to have the perl dependency
updated/fixed so we can obsolete both perl 5.22 and 5.24.

> 
> But for some reason (which I suspect may be due to the ongoing fixes and migrations),
> "gmake REQUIRED_PACKAGES" is now producing a runtime/perl dependency,
> which is better than the runtime/perl-524 that it produced in the past.

The "some reason" is this:

Regular packages should depend on runtime/perl instead of runtime/perl-$(PLV)
https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/commit/9bec6142781527d49dc39813df2b259ef37c645c

> OpenIndiana also offers perl 5.36 optionally.

Yes.  The addition was announced more than month ago:

https://www.mail-archive.com/openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org/msg26335.html

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