On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 09:39:44AM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Akemi Yagi, channeling Keith Lofstrom, wrote:
should explore the problem further with TUV and the CentOS community. If a fix is not forthcoming from TUV, I reluctantly suggest that we get together with the CentOS people and fork this portion of the distro, perhaps standardizing on Perl 5.10 . There are people in the Perl community ready to assist us.
While forking the whole perl subsection of the distro is a bit drastic, I am quite happy to have a perl in C5Plus. Does someone want to get in touch with Keith and get a summary on what needs fixing in this case ? Also - if the conversation was to take place on centos-devel list, would be much cooler.
What are you thinking of here Karanbir? Using the current C5 perl package (so 5.8.8) but with the upstream fixes applied? Or backporting the FC8 package? Or something more divergent from upstream (e.g. do we turn off ithreads)?
I assume we're not thinking of rebasing to 5.10, for instance?
Cheers, Gavin
Gavin Carr wrote:
What are you thinking of here Karanbir? Using the current C5 perl package (so 5.8.8) but with the upstream fixes applied? Or backporting the FC8 package? Or something more divergent from upstream (e.g. do we turn off ithreads)?
I was hoping someone else would come up with that plan and take ownership of it :D However, what I intend to do today is backport the fix's into the latest version of perl already released into CentOS-5 so its available as an interim fix. I am sure something will come down the line from upstream, and when it does we can replace our interim fix with whatever does come down, when it comes down. Stay tuned.
I assume we're not thinking of rebasing to 5.10, for instance?
not me no.
- KB
I want to volunteer if any benchmarking, testing or other help might be needed :D --
Best Regards,
Ivan Levchenko levchenko.i@gmail.com
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
Gavin Carr wrote:
What are you thinking of here Karanbir? Using the current C5 perl package (so 5.8.8) but with the upstream fixes applied? Or backporting the FC8 package? Or something more divergent from upstream (e.g. do we turn off ithreads)?
I was hoping someone else would come up with that plan and take ownership of it :D However, what I intend to do today is backport the fix's into the latest version of perl already released into CentOS-5 so its available as an interim fix. I am sure something will come down the line from upstream, and when it does we can replace our interim fix with whatever does come down, when it comes down. Stay tuned.
I assume we're not thinking of rebasing to 5.10, for instance?
not me no.
- KB
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