Re: [gentoo-user] Advice appreciated regarding how to handle Perl modules correctly in an ebuild

2023-03-21 Thread Morgan Wesström
On 2023-03-21 21:04, Jack wrote: I'd suggest looking at ebuilds created by g-cpan, which produces ebuilds for any module in CPAN. I was looking at this early on but didn't think I would need it but it turned out that there was one more dependency I had missed. g-cpan worked very well, integra

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice appreciated regarding how to handle Perl modules correctly in an ebuild

2023-03-21 Thread William Kenworthy
On 22/3/23 04:27, Morgan Wesström wrote: On 2023-03-21 21:04, Jack wrote: 1) Where's the appropriate place for these files in Gentoo and why? 2) If the appropriate place is either of those folders with a version number, how do I install the files there without hard coding the version numb

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice appreciated regarding how to handle Perl modules correctly in an ebuild

2023-03-21 Thread Jack
On 2023.03.21 16:27, Morgan Wesström wrote: On 2023-03-21 21:04, Jack wrote: 1) Where's the appropriate place for these files in Gentoo and why? 2) If the appropriate place is either of those folders with a version number, how do I install the files there without hard coding the version num

[gentoo-user] Strange swap behaviour.

2023-03-21 Thread Laurence Perkins
I have a couple systems here which are swapping out constantly when the system is under load. This is almost certainly cache pressure since "under load" means "streaming large amounts of data to disk". The odd thing is they almost never swap back in. The swap device is getting about 2MB/s wor

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice appreciated regarding how to handle Perl modules correctly in an ebuild

2023-03-21 Thread Morgan Wesström
On 2023-03-21 21:04, Jack wrote: 1) Where's the appropriate place for these files in Gentoo and why? 2) If the appropriate place is either of those folders with a version number, how do I install the files there without hard coding the version number in the ebuild (which would naturally bre

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice appreciated regarding how to handle Perl modules correctly in an ebuild

2023-03-21 Thread Jack
On 2023.03.21 15:19, Morgan Wesström wrote: Dear list, I'm trying to create an ebuild for a ZFS snapshot/replication automation tool called Znapzend that I've been using on FreeBSD for some time and also would like to use in Gentoo. https://github.com/oetiker/znapzend The project homepag

[gentoo-user] Advice appreciated regarding how to handle Perl modules correctly in an ebuild

2023-03-21 Thread Morgan Wesström
Dear list, I'm trying to create an ebuild for a ZFS snapshot/replication automation tool called Znapzend that I've been using on FreeBSD for some time and also would like to use in Gentoo. https://github.com/oetiker/znapzend The project homepage has a link to a 3 year old abandoned ebuild tha