Re: Updating perl 5.36.0 => 5.42.2 - some questions

[Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer@ipfire.org>]

Hi Michael,

On 16.06.2026 13:49, Michael Tremer wrote:
> 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.

Take your time! ;-)

I'm just triple-checking all of these updates by doing another clean
'next' build - testing the new 'timerless' 'make.sh'.

Devel is running...

Best
Matthias

>> 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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