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Category: miscellaneous
Author/Contact Info Oldrich Kruza <Oldrich.Kruza@sixtease.net> http://www.sixtease.net/
Description: Run this script from the perllib directory, where vendor_perl and site_perl directories reside. (in my case it's /usr/lib/perl5) The script will output the modules (.pm files) located in both subdirs. The branch (site_perl or vendor_perl) will be output for the older module (which you thus might want to remove).
#!/usr/bin/perl

=pod

Run this script from the perllib directory, where vendor_perl and site
+_perl
directories reside. (in my case it's /usr/lib/perl5)
The script will output the modules (.pm files) located in both subdirs
+.

The branch (site_perl or vendor_perl) will be output for the older mod
+ule
(which you thus might want to remove).

Set $PERLVERSION to whatever you have in both site_perl and vendor_per
+l.

=cut

use strict;
use warnings;

my $PERLVERSION = '5.8.8';

# print each element of a list on a separate line
$\ = $, = "\n";

my $s = 'site_perl';
my $v = 'vendor_perl';
my @pms = ();

# takes a list of dirnames that are in both branches
# returns a list of files that are in these dirs
# in both branches (the branch prefix is truncated)
sub common {
    my @dirs = @_;
    my @rv = ();
    for my $dir (@dirs) {
        my @site   = glob("$s/$dir/*");
        my @vendor = glob("$v/$dir/*");
        s#^.*?/## for @site, @vendor;
        push @rv, grep {my $s = $_; grep {$_ eq $s} @vendor} @site;
    }
    return @rv;
}

# initialization
# The array contains files that are in both branches
# of one level of the subtree hierarchy.
my @commons = common $PERLVERSION;

# store the modules common to both branches.
# Processes one level of subtree depth per iteration.
while (@commons) {
    # store the modules - they will be output
    push @pms, grep {m/\.pm$/} @commons;
    # keep only directories for further traversal
    @commons = grep {-d "$s/$_"} @commons;
    # dive one level deeper
    @commons = common @commons;
}

# Print the found modules.
# Try to figure out the version of each
# and print the older one.
# Don't print a branch if neither seems to be older.
for my $pm (@pms) {
    # $spm --   site_perl PM
    # $vpm -- vendor_perl PM
    open my $spm, '<', "$s/$pm" or warn "Couldn't open $s/$pm";
    open my $vpm, '<', "$v/$pm" or warn "Couldn't open $v/$pm";

    # look for the version of each module
    # $sV --   site_perl module's VERSION
    # $vV -- vendor_perl module's VERSION
    no warnings 'uninitialized';
    my ($sV) = grep /\$VERSION\s*=/, <$spm>;
    my ($vV) = grep /\$VERSION\s*=/, <$vpm>;
    $sV =~ /\$VERSION\s*=\D*([\d.]+)/;
    $sV = $1;
    $vV =~ /\$VERSION\s*=\D*([\d.]+)/;
    $vV = $1;

    my $leadstr =
    $sV > $vV ?   "$v/" :
    $sV < $vV ? "  $s/" :
                "     " ;
    print $leadstr . $pm;
}