Livecheck for Perl

[Marius Schamschula]

The last couple of days I’ve been seeing

marius$ port -v livecheck armadillo
armadillo seems to have been updated (port version: 7.200.1, new version: 7.100.4)

so it’s not just perl...

On Jun 10, 2016, at 8:48 AM, Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:

> On 10 June 2016 at 14:51, Rainer Müller wrote:
>> On 2016-06-10 12:55, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>> But why
>>> 
>>>> port -v livecheck p5-config-simple
>>> p5-config-simple seems to have been updated (port version: 4.59, new
>>> version: 4.58)
>>> 
>>> then? Do we need to fix something parts of other code as well?
>> 
>> The perl5 port group defines 'livecheck.type regexm' (applies regex only
>> once against the whole file), while the change above was only for
>> 'regex' (applies regex against each line of the file).
>> 
>> https://trac.macports.org/changeset/149299
>> 
>> Besides that, I don't think the perl5 port group actually needs
>> 'regexm', just using 'regex' should be enough.
>> 
>> I am afraid I may have made this worse now, given that the decimal perl
>> module version numbers cannot be handled by our vercmp...
> 
> There are actually just two problematic cases, but yes, these are new
> (introduced with your latest commit):
> 
> Error: livecheck failed for p5-chemistry-elements: extracted version
> '1.07' is older than livecheck.version '1.062'
> Error: livecheck failed for p5-class-makemethods: extracted version
> '1.01' is older than livecheck.version '1.009'
> 
> The rest is about "true" errors.
> 
> Mojca
> 
> PS: we might need a keyword to say "please don't throw an error" for
> this particular port :) :) :)
> Indexing of some CPAN packages have been "broken" for years ...
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