 | NixOS Perl | 45 Members |
| 12 Servers |
| NixOS Perl | 45 Members |
| 12 Servers |
| Sender | Message | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 6 Nov 2023 | ||
 adamcstephens 🐝 | or do we drop releases earlier than upstream stops security patching? | 17:08:25 |
 stigo (away) | A new version of Perl5 is released roughly every year or so, and in nixpkgs we keep the two currently maintained versions. | 17:09:03 |
| stigo (away) | Which today are 5.36 and 5.38 | 17:11:27 |
| adamcstephens 🐝 | so 5.36 will be good until roughly may-july next year (depending on release date) | 17:12:09 |
| stigo (away) | Yeah basically | 17:13:09 |
| stigo (away) | Usually backwards compat is not a big issue in perl5, but there are of course some issues :) | 17:14:27 |
| stigo (away) | I've proposed to also only keep one version of perl5 in nixpkgs to make maintenance a bit easier, maybe two if/when perl7 ships. | 17:15:09 |
| adamcstephens 🐝 | i suspect that may be fine with slimserver, if we can get it using our perl packages instead of its own | 17:16:00 |
| adamcstephens 🐝 | so to try and move forward, am i correct in assuming i should be removing this directory and replacing it with buildInputs ? https://github.com/Logitech/slimserver/tree/public/8.3/CPAN | 17:17:19 |
| adamcstephens 🐝 | and if so, any tips to save me the time of manually tracking down all the associated packages? :) | 17:18:05 |
| stigo (away) | In reply to @adam:robins.wtfI'd guess so, unless something needs to be patched for it to not use the CPAN directory. First I'd check what kind of error messages you get from just using the CPAN directory, likely there are some modules that are not compatible with 5.38 or maybe som nix specific patches that are missing. | 17:19:59 |
| adamcstephens 🐝 | it's currently failing with the error in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/265488 | 17:21:00 |
| stigo (away) | But I think we should wait for staging-next before trying, as it has over 600 commits to perlPackages :) I hope it will be merged into master very soon. | 17:21:08 |
| adamcstephens 🐝 | in that CPAN directory is an arch directory which has pre-compiled modules in it | 17:21:32 |
| adamcstephens 🐝 | (and doesn't have 5.38 obviously) | 17:22:31 |
| stigo (away) | In reply to @adam:robins.wtfThose messages do not seems to be perl specific, but come from some tooling inside slimserver | 17:22:26 |
| adamcstephens 🐝 | right. | 17:24:11 |
| adamcstephens 🐝 | In reply to @stigo:matrix.org so to fix these failures, i've added perlPackages to buildInputs for the packages they provide in their pre-built vendoring. this causes version mismatch errors though. e.g. | 17:37:22 |
| stigo (away) | They still seem to load modules from the vendored CPAN directory according to the error message above | 17:40:43 |
| stigo (away) | | 17:41:15 |
| adamcstephens 🐝 | Ok, so I’ll remove any that we’re providing and see where that takes me | 17:41:17 |
| stigo (away) | In reply to @adam:robins.wtf Managed to get slimserver.pl not fail at compiling by providing the following buildInputs And removed the CPAN directory in prePatch with | 17:50:31 |
| stigo (away) | ... also I set perlPackages to perl538Packages | 17:50:50 |
| stigo (away) | In reply to @adam:robins.wtf* Managed to get And removed the CPAN directory in prePatch with | 17:51:03 |
| stigo (away) | (on top of your PR) | 17:51:42 |
| stigo (away) | bbl, gotta run | 17:51:47 |
| adamcstephens 🐝 | Thanks! | 17:52:02 |
| stigo (away) | didnt try the nixos module tho | 17:52:54 |
| adamcstephens 🐝 | Yeah I’ll run it though the tests that I’m improving | 17:55:27 |
| stigo (away) | (the buildInputs above needs to be tidied up a bit as well) | 17:56:20 |