From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 11 14:27:21 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 692F616A41F for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:27:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dennyboy@cableone.net) Received: from S3.cableone.net (s3.cableone.net [24.116.0.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ED5D43D53 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:27:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dennyboy@cableone.net) Received: from dualman.cableone.net (unverified [24.119.190.179]) by S3.cableone.net (CableOne SMTP Service S3) with ESMTP id 27994627 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 07:47:56 -0700 Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:27:16 -0500 (CDT) From: Denny White To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050811085433.B823@dualman.cableone.net> X-GPG-PUBLIC_KEY: http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net X-GPG-FINGERPRINT: D0A9 AD44 1F10 E09E OE67 EC25 CB44 F2E5 1644 E79A MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-IP-stats: Incoming Last 2, First 100, in=54, out=0, spam=0 X-External-IP: 24.119.190.179 X-Abuse-Info: Send abuse complaints to abuse@cableone.net Subject: cpan/bsdpan/ports need help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:27:21 -0000 I had read where it was better to use ports than cpan modules. I had originally used cpan because of updating the virus data files for f-prot, before I knew I could do it with portupgrade. I got tired of seeing ports held by user & had trouble trying to force some of them to upgrade, so I took out the bsdpan portion from: >From /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf HOLD_PKGS = [ 'bsdpan-*', ] Now I can't do anything with cpan, including installing some ports. Here's the output from cpan: Cannot load ExtUtils::MakeMaker: Can't locate ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7 .) @ (eval 4) line 1. Begin failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.87/BSDPAN/ ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm line 17. Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/CPAN.pm line 16. Begin failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/CPAN.pm line 16. Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/bin/cpan line 119. Begin failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/cpan line 119. Below are the ports that got upgraded when this whole fiasco started, due to my ignorance about perl, cpan, and ports and their interdependencies: total 10994 drwxr-xr-x 9 root wheel 512 Aug 11 08:19 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 10726400 Aug 11 02:07 pkgdb.db drwxr-xr-x 246 root wheel 7168 Aug 11 02:07 . drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 11 02:04 p5-Time-HiRes-1.72,1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 11 02:03 p5-CGI.pm-3.10_1,1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 11 02:02 txt2html-2.41 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 11 02:02 p5-PathTools-3.09 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 11 02:02 p5-ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.12 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 11 02:02 p5-ExtUtils-ParseXS-2.07 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 11 02:02 p5-Module-Build-0.26.11 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 11 02:02 p5-Archive-Tar-1.23_1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 11 00:57 bsdpan-Test-Pod-1.20 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 11 00:57 bsdpan-Test-Builder-Tester-1.01 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 11 00:57 bsdpan-Storable-2.15 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 11 00:57 bsdpan-Pod-Simple-3.02 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 11 00:57 bsdpan-Pod-Escapes-1.04 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 11 00:57 bsdpan-MD5-2.03 Any help greatly appreciated on how to fix this. Denny White GnuPG key : 0x1644E79A | http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net Fingerprint: D0A9 AD44 1F10 E09E 0E67 EC25 CB44 F2E5 1644 E79A