From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 25 21:11:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D83A116A420 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 21:11:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeff.cross@averageadmins.com) Received: from S3.cableone.net (s3.cableone.net [24.116.0.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F37A43D48 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 21:11:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeff.cross@averageadmins.com) Received: from [24.117.83.20] (unverified [24.117.83.20]) by S3.cableone.net (CableOne SMTP Service S3) with ESMTP id 47746385 for multiple; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:45:09 -0700 Message-ID: <4400C80C.7030308@averageadmins.com> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 15:11:40 -0600 From: Jeff Cross User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060131) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kirill Ponomarew References: <44008ED7.6050406@averageadmins.com> <4400917C.4010808@computer.org> <440096E7.1000806@fromley.net> <20060225174516.GE766@voodoo.bawue.com> In-Reply-To: <20060225174516.GE766@voodoo.bawue.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IP-stats: No info recorded yet X-External-IP: 24.117.83.20 X-Abuse-Info: Send abuse complaints to abuse@cableone.net Cc: Spadge , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Eric Schuele Subject: Re: Trouble Upgrading Ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 21:11:55 -0000 Kirill Ponomarew wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 05:41:59PM +0000, Spadge wrote: > >> Eric Schuele wrote: >> >>> Jeff Cross wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I have been upgrading my ports using portupgrade -varR but have run >>>> across a few that are giving me fits. >>>> >>>> When trying to update scrollkeeper I get the following: >>>> >>>> You must have XML::Parser installed to run ../../intltool-merge >>>> >>>> >>> I ran into this. I did a `make deinstall` and `make reinstall` on >>> p5-XML-Parser. it did the trick. >>> >>> But Now I have other problems see "Trouble building gnomeprint". I do >>> not know if they are related in any way. >>> >> I found that with the recent update of perl5, an awful lot of perl5's >> little wizards are failing to portupgrade as the system tries to install >> them as dependancies even though (or because) they are already installed. >> >> I once wrote a shell script to combat this sort of behaviour, as it is >> something I have run up against time and time again with the perl5 port. >> It looks something like this (I fully expect my email to kill the >> formatting of this, with like linewrap and everything, so beware): >> > > Did you read ports/UPDATING recomendation about how to update > perl dependencies ? > > 20060220: > AFFECTS: users of lang/perl5.8 > AUTHOR: tobez@FreeBSD.org > > lang/perl5.8 has been updated to 5.8.8. You should update everything > depending on perl. The easiest way to do that is to use > perl-after-upgrade script supplied with lang/perl5.8. Please see > its manual page for details. > > -Kirill > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > I did not refer to the UPDATING text before upgrading. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. I will research the perl-after-upgrade script and will definitely refer to this file (UPDATING) in the future. Thank you for the responses. Jeff Cross