[csw-maintainers] Perl v5.10.1 in testing versus cssh

[Sebastian Kayser]

Dagobert Michelsen wrote on 21.12.2009 16:26:
> Am 21.12.2009 um 16:20 schrieb Sebastian Kayser:
>> * Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Dagobert Michelsen  
>>> <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
>>>> Gary, I installed Perl 5.10.1 on build8st, would you mind giving  
>>>> clusterssh
>>>> a try against the updated Perl?
>>> It's not that, at least in this case.  clusterssh doesn't contain any
>>> shared objects, the package consists only of a perl script and a man
>>> page:
>>>
>>> http://www.opencsw.org/search/clusterssh
>> It relies on pm_tk which in turn is compiled against the previous perl
>> version. We should set up some automated way of re-building all perl
>> modules with shared objects files against the new perl.
> 
> The easiest way would be to update cpan2pkg from CSWcswutils to output
> GAR Makefile and then mass-update the modules. I won't have much time
> over christmas as I won a Live Upgrade migration from U6 UFS to U8 ZFS
> for an 8-machine Sun Ray cluster which will suck up most of my "spare"
> time...

Isn't this perfect training material for apprentices? ;)

> Sebastian, would you mind giving it a look?

My time is limited also (will be away most of the holidays), but I will
have a look. IIRC I even spotted a full blown CPAN-to-build-description
utility within another distro. Might well be suitable/adjustable for our
purposes. What sort of time pressure do we have with the perl upgrade?

Sebastian