Re: Updating IPC::Run in CI?

On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 11:18 AM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> As you can see we currently don't install packages from outside netbsd's
> package repository.  We could change that and install IPC::Run via cpan, but
> imo it's obviously nicer - and more representative of real world setups - if
> we just rely on OS/distro packages.

I guess there's a bit of a philosophical question there: for a
test-only dependency in our CI, do we want it to be "representative of
real-world setups", or do we want it to work as well as it can?

> I don't know what would be required to get netbsd to upate their IPC::Run
> package.

It's listed as outdated here:

    https://www.netbsd.org/~wiz/perl.html

but I'm not entirely clear on the process for requesting an update. I
guess I could ask pkgsrc-users@?

Thanks,
--Jacob