On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:49:39 -0700 kashani <kashani-l...@badapple.net> wrote:
> Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 5:40 PM, kashani > > <kashani-l...@badapple.net> wrote: > >> kash...@www01 ~ $ emerge -pvt bugzilla > >> These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > >> Calculating dependencies... done! > >> > >> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "~dev-lang/perl-5.10.1". > >> (dependency required by "perl-core/Module-Build-0.35" [ebuild]) > >> (dependency required by "dev-perl/DateTime-TimeZone-0.98" [ebuild]) > >> (dependency required by "www-apps/bugzilla-3.4.1-r1" [ebuild]) > >> (dependency required by "bugzilla" [argument]) > >> > >> I don't see anything in man emerge that would help me track > >> down the missing dependency. Is there any easy way to do this or > >> do I have to track it down the Modeule-Build dependency tree which > >> looks to be the culprit. > >> > >> kashani > > > > What version of bugzilla are you trying to emerge? That perl is > > newer than any I see in my portage. Are you using an overlay? > > www-apps/bugzilla-3.4.1-r1 seems to emerge fine and works with perl > > 5.8 here. Perl 5.8 is at end-of-life. Gentoo volunteers are *very* (PAINFULLY) slow in getting 5.10 into the official tree. They unfortunately need all the help they can get, since this is a major failure of Gentoo to "keep up" with the upstream developers and (FWIW) other "distros". This isn't news, BTW... Please report the error on b.g.o., so the perl herd (or whoever is really doing the work now) can fix the problem. Also, #gentoo-perl is the only place to get any real help on these gentoo-perl issues... (devolution to IRC "chat" being yet another systemic failure, IMO, but that's the place the folks making these mistakes may communicate with users). Better yet, take the plunge and go on to install 5.10.1 from the perl-experimental overlay (good luck with *that*) and report how you fixed any issues you come across. It's only going to get to be a worse mess unless everyone who is able picks up the slack for these guys. And you will have to upgrade eventually anyway... so why not now? My $.02, not terribly helpful though, I suppose. :( Cheers, -- Michael Higgins
