Warren Togami wrote: > José Pedro Oliveira wrote: > >> Warren, >> >> We have another major problem with mod_perl 2.0.0 RC5 as it also >> requires CGI.pm version 3.08 which has just hit CPAN today (a couple >> of hours ago). CGI.pm is one of the perl modules affected by >> the module rename (Apache:: -> Apache2::) done in mod_perl RC5. >> >> >> Problem: >> How to package CGI 3.08? >> CGI.pm is a dual life perl module: shipped with perl >> and also shipped as an independent module . >> >> >> Possible solutions: >> 1) patching perl-5.8.6 >> 2) remove CGI from the core perl package and and go back >> to perl-CGI as it was done in Red Hat 7.3, 8, and 9 >> 3) wait for perl-5.8.7 and hope that it includes CGI 3.08. >> > > If perl-5.8.7 will include CGI 3.08, then adding a perl-CGI package now > would be a hassle because it is a temporary situation. To make matters > worse the existing perl packages contain "Obsoletes: perl-CGI" which may > cause problems for us. For these reasons it may be better to patch > perl-5.8.6. Short-term ugliness for simpler long term maintenance? > > Maybe my opinion here is totally wrong, so I would wait for Ville to > choose between #1 or #2. > > How large would a patch for solution #1 be? Perl-5.8.6 ships with CGI.pm 3.05. Mod_perl 2.0.0 RC5 requires CGI.pm 3.08. Patches in unified format (3.05 -> 3.08) 1) Full patch is around 141 KB. 2) If we exclude the docs (README, Changes, and cgi_docs.html) we can reduce the patch to 89 KB. Note: the CGI documentation files aren't ship with perl. Source files: 4e1e2288369089e56e8a115aade93ea4 CGI.pm-3.05.tar.gz 6f13f09e498cacd37ceb271443269b8d CGI.pm-3.08.tar.gz jpo -- José Pedro Oliveira * mailto: jpo@xxxxxxxxxxxx * http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/~jpo * * gpg fingerprint = F9B6 8D87 859D 1C94 48F0 84C0 9749 9EB5 91BD 851B *
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