Bug#707031: Feature Request: chattr +i site perl install path

[Hugh Esco]

Package: perl
Version: 5.10.1-17squeeze5
Severity: normal

Working with colleague at the moment who just reported he hosed his site perl
installation by forggeting to designate his locallib when installing a package
he's working with.

I'd urge that on installation, the site perl install path permissions be
updated with chattr +i to guard against this possibility.  Other packages
needing access to the site perl installation would need to chattr -i; install,
chattr +i.

It would be nice to make locallib and perhaps cpanm core components of a debian
perl installation as well, with a default local lib designated so that the site
perl paths need not be polluted by subsequent installations.




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.7
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages perl depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0             1.0.5-6+squeeze1  high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                  2.11.3-4          Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdb4.7               4.7.25-9          Berkeley v4.7 Database Libraries [
ii  libgdbm3               1.8.3-9           GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii  perl-base              5.10.1-17squeeze5 minimal Perl system
ii  perl-modules           5.10.1-17squeeze5 Core Perl modules
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3  compression library - runtime

Versions of packages perl recommends:
ii  netbase                       4.45       Basic TCP/IP networking system

Versions of packages perl suggests:
pn  libterm-readline-gnu-p <none>            (no description available)
ii  make                   3.81-8.2          An utility for Directing compilati
ii  perl-doc               5.10.1-17squeeze5 Perl documentation

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