Of course, we need testers for that; the architecture teams cannot possibly try out all Perl programs in Gentoo with the new version. So, if you're feeling adventurous, and if you are running a fully updated stable system, please help us!
What do you need to do? First, upgrade perl-cleaner to ~arch by placing the following line in your package.keywords (or package.accept_keywords)
app-admin/perl-cleanerand updating perl-cleaner (to currently 2.19):
emerge -u1a perl-cleanerThen, upgrade Perl (and only Perl) to ~arch by placing the following exact three lines in your package.keywords (or package.accept_keywords):
dev-lang/perlThen, upgrade your system with
virtual/perl-*
perl-core/*
emerge -uDNav worldThis should now already be much easier than with previous Perl versions. In theory, all Perl packages should be rebuilt by emerge via the subslot rebuild mechanism, and perl-cleaner should not find anything to do anymore, but we cannot be 100% sure of that yet so far. (Looking forward to feedback.)
perl-cleaner --all
Well, and then use Perl and use your system, and if you encounter any problems, file bugs!!!
A final remark, once Perl 5.20 becomes stable you may want to remove above keywording lines from your portage configuration again.
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