From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 11 15:22:39 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 ED48F16A41F for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:22:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nawcom@nawcom.no-ip.com) Received: from nawcom.no-ip.com (adsl-69-209-132-220.dsl.sfldmi.ameritech.net [69.209.132.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4329443D48 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:22:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nawcom@nawcom.no-ip.com) Received: from [192.168.212.7] (unknown [192.168.212.7]) by nawcom.no-ip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE1DB6F90; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:45:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42FB6D4C.7080901@nawcom.no-ip.com> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:22:52 -0400 From: nawcom User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Denny White References: <20050811085433.B823@dualman.cableone.net> In-Reply-To: <20050811085433.B823@dualman.cableone.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 15:22:39 -0000 the bsdpan-PathTools is how the ports are named when not building from the ports collection (from what i understand). my only solution (and it shouldn't take too much time) is to deinstall it and build from ports. Denny White wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"