I am updating Perl packages in pkgsrc right now. pkgsrc is the package management system from the NetBSD project and it is great. It works on different platforms and different operating systems such as Linux, Solaris and even on FreeBSD.
The Perl packages really need some love there – some are horribly outdated and broken. There seem to be Perl packages in pkgsrc which are older than the versions which are shipped with the Perl core distribution. It’s alot of work.
Here what I will do in the next days – let’s see how far I can get:
- update the packages (at least the most)
- clean up the licenses
- check the dependencies inside the Makefile.PL (script)
As I’ve mentioned on a talk – it’s not only fun to maintain Perl packages for a package distribution. But it seems to be fair – compared to someone who follows the KDE packages :)
Ah folks – here is something which I don’t like:
snowflake:p5-Archive-Tar rhaen$ cvs ci ../../doc/CHANGES-2012 cvs commit: Up-to-date check failed for `../../doc/CHANGES-2012' cvs [commit aborted]: correct above errors first!
Can i haz working version control system?