Re: Updating perl 5.36.0 => 5.42.2 - some questions

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

No worries, I wasn’t particularly quick with my response.

What you sent looks good to me. I will reply to those emails once I review them.

> On 16 Jun 2026, at 12:47, Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer@ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> On 16.06.2026 13:20, Michael Tremer wrote:
>> Hello Matthias,
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
>> Yes, this is a bug update because there are plenty of modules built after the main package.
>> 
>> The best way would be to update them one by one - i.e. commit them one by one. But since this is a lot, I would be happy to listen to any other proposals.
> 
> Ups. Just saw your mail - a few seconds after I pushed the whole thing,
> sorry.
> 
> Take a look and decide - its really huge... ;-)
> 
> Best
> Matthias
>> Best,
>> -Michael
>> 
>>> On 14 Jun 2026, at 22:04, Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer@ipfire.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> On 12.06.2026 13:19, Adolf Belka wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>> Feel free to do so but maybe you should also look at updating the perl package itself.
>>>> ...
>>> 
>>> I did. But I'm not quite sure what to do next and need a hint.
>>> 
>>> After "a few" rootfile-adjustments I got a build based on 'next' with
>>> 'perl 5.42.2' that is building without any errors. No seen problems.
>>> 
>>> Adjusting the rootfile for the new perl version was a bit...extensive,
>>> but I think I managed it. Build is running without any errors.
>>> 
>>> But there are about 70 rootfiles from 'common' to 'packages' who thought
>>> they were all alone now and wanted to come along. They all contained the
>>> perl version string '5.36.0', which now had to be changed to 5.42.2.
>>> 
>>> I think I need to push these files together with the actual perl update.
>>> This will take some place for an update... Since this is my first perl
>>> update I was a bit surprised how many files were affected.
>>> 
>>> Would this be ok? Updating perl leads to about ~70 files that need to be
>>> updated too and pushed because of changed rootfiles?
>>> 
>>> Best
>>> Matthias
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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