[Buildroot] [PATCH 12/13] pkg-perl: add a target which upgrades all packages from metacpan

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Wed Oct 10 08:25:23 UTC 2018


Hello,

On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 09:33:49 +0200, François Perrad wrote:

> > I'm curious to understand why you're adding only target Perl packages.
> >  
> 
>  `scancpan` fetch recursively all dependencies of a package.

OK, thanks for the explanation.

In the Python case, we have a few Python host packages that are listed
in package/Config.in.host, i.e they may exist or be built, without
being a dependency of a target Python package. But that's not the case
with Perl today, so OK.

Best regards,

Thomas
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