Martin Nordin wrote:

Hi guys.

I've got some perl conundrums I'd like to discuss with you.

I'm trying to get the Swedish xmltv grabber to work. However I'm not familiar at all with perl and I've noticed some strange things.

I just updated perl to 5.8.7 which causes all p5-pkgs to break as they want to install thiere files under /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/ and perl or make or whatever causes them to be in 5.8.7 instead.

Should version numbers be in the installation paths like this?

Python does the same python2.4 just create a symlink as 'python' and in your case create a symlink as /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 site_perl would be the best symlink though not sure how perl works here.

Can/should it be changed to /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl or something instead? Isn't enough to separate the main perl releases like perl5 vs. perl6?

re: above

Is the changes in the minor perl releases large enough so one should update/rebuild all p5- packages?

read the changelog of perl?

Also, during my attempts to get xmltv working I've run into a seemingly endless string of new perl modules I have to create ports for in order to get the thing to install. Is it the right approach to create a new port for each perl module needed, or should I do one xmltv_se port which builds all perl modules needed?

the crux site states to create 1 port for each needed module/program then add the depends on: perl,module1,module2

Regards, Martin

This answers some of the questions.