Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:03:54 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@black-earth.co.uk> To: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Peter Harrison <peter.piggybox@virgin.net> Subject: Re: Perl upgrade problem... Message-ID: <4B75C23A.4090105@black-earth.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <6201873e1002121250y855fac7v7c53b970cd93463@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100212204458.GA44419@laptop.piggybox> <6201873e1002121250y855fac7v7c53b970cd93463@mail.gmail.com>
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On 12/02/2010 20:50, Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Peter Harrison
> <peter.piggybox@virgin.net>wrote:
>
>> Up till now I've kept Perl on my machine at 5.8.9. I now see from UPDATING
>> that upgrading to 5.10 is recommended.
>>
>> However, when I follow the instructions, I get the following error:
>>
>> laptop# portupgrade -o lang/perl5.10 -f perl-5.8.9_3
>>
>
> if you're referring to this:
>
> 20090911:
> AFFECTS: users of lang/perl5.10
> AUTHOR: skv@FreeBSD.org
>
> lang/perl5.10 has been updated to 5.10.1. You should update everything
> that depends on perl. The easiest way to do that is to use
> "perl-after-upgrade" script supplied with lang/perl5.10. Please see its
> manual page for details.
>
> If you want switch to lang/perl5.10 from lang/perl5.8 please follow
> instructions in the entry 20090328 in this file.
>
> Then you have misunderstood what it's saying. That only applies to folks
> already running 5.10 and if you have no need for that then do nothing
> further. If you really believe you need to run 5.10 then you should follow
> the complete instructions from the entry.
>
Err... he's following the right instructions. It's just that since
those instructions were written there have been some badly thought-out
changes in bsd.ports.mk. Any time you try and use portupgrade to
replace one port with another now, you'll likely need to tell it to
ignore CONFLICTS settings:
# portupgrade -m DISABLE_CONFLICTS=yes -o lang/perl5.10 \
-f perl-5.8.9_3
Then reinstall every port that depends on perl -- you can't use
perl_after_upgrade for this update: the delta in version numbers is too
large.
Cheers,
Matthew
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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard, Flat 3
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Kent, CT11 9PW
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