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authorFrancois Perrad <fperrad@gmail.com>2018-10-11 18:12:45 +0200
committerArnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>2018-10-24 00:22:13 +0100
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scancpan: add PERL_FOO_DISTNAME in perl-foo.mk
This variable is needed for upgrading packages with scancpan. Signed-off-by: Francois Perrad <francois.perrad@gadz.org> Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
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diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-perl.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-perl.txt
index eb14d9de18..6ce693fd6e 100644
--- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-perl.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-perl.txt
@@ -23,8 +23,9 @@ with an example :
10: PERL_FOO_BAR_DEPENDENCIES = perl-strictures
11: PERL_FOO_BAR_LICENSE = Artistic or GPL-1.0+
12: PERL_FOO_BAR_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
-13:
-14: $(eval $(perl-package))
+13: PERL_FOO_BAR_DISTNAME = Foo-Bar
+14:
+15: $(eval $(perl-package))
------------------------
On line 7, we declare the version of the package.
@@ -40,7 +41,10 @@ On line 11 and 12, we give licensing details about the package (its
license on line 11, and the file containing the license text on line
12).
-Finally, on line 14, we invoke the +perl-package+ macro that
+On line 13, the name of the distribution as needed by the script
++utils/scancpan+ (in order to regenerate/upgrade these package files).
+
+Finally, on line 15, we invoke the +perl-package+ macro that
generates all the Makefile rules that actually allow the package to be
built.
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