I really do like packages
I was reminded last night why I like packages so much. I am doing some work trying to track down a little problem we are having with an application. The problem seems to be with taint checks failing in an unexpected way under load. To read more about the problem you can take a peek at the Debian bug entry http://bugs.debian.org/303308
To see if the bug was still around in some future versions of Perl I thought I would go ahead and build Perl 5.9.2. Now because I like doing things the hard way I thought it would be nice just to build a deb. This way after my testing if there was a problem I could just downgrade the deb. I started out bye pulling the src for 5.8.7 from testing “apt-get -t testing source perl”
I then pulled the source down for 5.9.2 and pulled the debian dir out from 5.8.7 and stuck it into 5.9.2. A couple changes to changelog a tweek or two and I was ready for dpkg-buildpackage. I fired it off and waited….
This was the point when I knew why I am WAY to impatient for Gentoo. I went got some coffee. Then I went to the bathroom. Then I finaly said screw it and went to the bar. I come in this morning to find this
Can’t open Perl script “debian/build/perl/usr/bin/pod2man”: No such file or directory
make: *** [install-stamp] Error 2
Well I guess I have to do some work and to find out more you will have to tune in tomorrow. Did I mention that I hate compiling stuff!