From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marius Bakke Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable deterministic perl archives. Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 23:13:12 +0100 Message-ID: <87oa0ztfrb.fsf@kirby.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> References: <87eg22nkvo.fsf@kirby.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <87r35zp2oz.fsf@gnu.org> <87lgw6hdhd.fsf@kirby.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <878ts3d8lj.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43643) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cBUAr-00020D-MJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2016 17:13:22 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cBUAn-00026r-Ju for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2016 17:13:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: <878ts3d8lj.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > Hello! > > Marius Bakke skribis: > >> As far as I can tell, they really are pointless. Makefiles generated by >> MakeMaker have a "pure_install" target that do not create them. >> >> From http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=3DExtUtils%3A%3AMakeMaker: >> >> "make install per default writes some documentation of what has been >> done into the file $(INSTALLARCHLIB)/perllocal.pod. This feature can be >> bypassed by calling make pure_install." >> >> Here is a typical perllocal.pod: >> >> =3Dhead2 Tue Oct 25 03:46:54 2016: C L >> >> =3Dover 4 >> >> =3Ditem * >> >> C >> >> =3Ditem * >> >> C >> >> =3Ditem * >> >> C >> >> =3Ditem * >> >> C >> >> =3Dback >> >> They contain build date, FFI language, link type, version and a list of >> executables. >> >> As far as I can tell, this is used by "traditional" package managers >> such as CPAN, which appends information about all modules in a location >> to a single perllocal.pod file [0]. Since our modules are >> self-contained, they will not have any more utility than the above. >> >> [0]: http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_installed_modules >> >> "Each time a module is installed on your system, it appends information >> like the following to a file called perllocal.pod which can be found in >> /usr/local/lib/perl5/version number/architecture/ or something akin to >> that" > > Oh so it seems similar to things like ld.so.cache. > > Then OK for this patch in core-updates, with a comment explaining what > the flag does and why it=E2=80=99s OK (and/or a link to this thread). OK. Pushed to core-updates as be12f4e27505edd87c4aa457fec43dd0fee23b79! > > Thank you! > > Ludo=E2=80=99. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCgAdFiEEu7At3yzq9qgNHeZDoqBt8qM6VPoFAlg8q/gACgkQoqBt8qM6 VPowuQf8DwoMSHghUkhbz5i1cZJx+iBkqx9qBpiHTALL0v4GT8VHP92/tbJ0fIoh C5Dko013eQJ8vMaVyL+UfsZGITOTMArhOtDaX47SKWCYqBH+Phdn4sp6P/hEdJDA VzYO/nVNimco9VV0gOnRT2J3NffRJ55Km4GPac1CT9cfWgFAkmScMolKwKDxIK5e 2bhMaHr4Q9qtkHftw0D/6BaFYzaRO8ck72Tgui02Sv7tepXccqOhfJdYZmt7gkIR cIxtrhzqe8WeoJH1ezrz6uYRotyoyHfgfc+WIRc9kqHnKO48qFo9fF0NYEV3j4n+ T/xfoJDwjoSA96IUnePHH+PhQz2JqQ== =m1rF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--