Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com> writes:

> * gnu/packages/perl.scm (perl-file-pushd): New variable
> ---
>  gnu/packages/perl.scm | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/perl.scm b/gnu/packages/perl.scm
> index 086e1fae0..4944ceb2a 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/perl.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/perl.scm
> @@ -3002,6 +3002,34 @@ of arbitrary depth and to delete an entire directory subtree from the
>  file system.")
>      (license (package-license perl))))
>  
> +(define-public perl-file-pushd
> +  (package
> +    (name "perl-file-pushd")
> +    (version "1.014")
> +    (source
> +     (origin
> +       (method url-fetch)
> +       (uri (string-append
> +             "mirror://cpan/authors/id/D/DA/DAGOLDEN/File-pushd-"
> +             version
> +             ".tar.gz"))
> +       (sha256
> +        (base32
> +         "02rlqvyy7gly3dsqwaa81aisyy9c791b8xvwzczcbgmcwgzkgaxm"))))
> +    (build-system perl-build-system)
> +    (home-page
> +     "http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-pushd")
> +    (synopsis
> +     "Change directory temporarily for a limited scope")
> +    (description "@code{File::pushd} does a temporary @code{chdir} that is
> +easily and automatically reverted, similar to @code{pushd} in some Unix
> +command shells.  It works by creating an object that caches the original
> +working directory.  When the object is destroyed, the destructor calls
> +@code{chdir} to revert to the original working directory.  By storing the
> +object in a lexical variable with a limited scope, this happens automatically
> +at the end of the scope.")
> +    (license asl2.0)))
> +
>  (define-public perl-file-list
>    (package
>      (name "perl-file-list")

This series of packages builds and lints fine for me. There are over 200
dependent packages that would have to be rebuilt though, and
core-updates is frozen to my knowledge. We can save this for the next
core-updates cycle, though!

Other Guix users, please correct me if I'm wrong.