Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:49:23 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how do I tell ports that perl5.8 should never be installed? Message-ID: <6201873e1002281349n2bcfd16dte6fdce53cd14c1db@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <86zl2tkrrv.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> References: <86zl2tkrrv.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
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On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>wrote: > > I've upgraded to Perl 5.10, but when I tried to install a few > things that depended on "perl", the package installed perl5.8, because > that must be what it was compiled with. > > How do I tell the ports system that perl5.8 should *never* be used, and > rather > than install a package that needs it, I can fall back to a port build? > > I'm using portsnap to update things, so I don't think i can just delete the > 5.8 port, because it will likely just get reinstalled. > See /usr/ports/UPDATING and /etc/make.conf -- Adam Vande More
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