From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 20 21:29:54 2006 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 8228B16A4DF for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:29:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0A8D43D46 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:29:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so1326616wxd for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:29:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.13.1 with SMTP id 1mr8401855wxm; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:29:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scorpio.seibercom.net ( [67.189.184.224]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id h38sm4758771wxd.2006.08.20.14.29.52; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:29:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scorpio.seibercom.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by scorpio.seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C73DBB19 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:29:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (boss.seibercom.net [192.168.0.4]) (Authenticated sender: gerard@scorpio.seibercom.net) by scorpio.seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0EE0B825 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:29:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:29:59 -0400 From: Gerard Seibert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Organization: Seibercom In-Reply-To: <44E8D116.8060308@enabled.com> References: <44E8D116.8060308@enabled.com> X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(gxJxxcR nSNPNr*/^~StawWU9KDJ-CT0k$f#@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q Message-Id: <20060820172648.2332.GERARD@seibercom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.25 [en] X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Subject: Re: portmanager ignoring update perl X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:29:54 -0000 Noah wrote: > I am running portmanager and updating all dependencies along the way. I > am finding that perl gets updated to the system version. I want to keep > it to version 5.8. . FreeBSD4-11 is my OS. > > so in order to get portmanager to stop updating perl do I add the > following to /usr/local/etc/portmanager/pm-020.conf > > ---- snip --- > > IGNORE|lang/perl5.8| > > > --- snip --- > > > will that work? It should work. I have it configured to ignore JAVA and OpenOfice. It just issues a message in the log that the port is being ignored. Out of curiosity, why can you not run a newer version of Perl on that OS? -- Gerard Seibert gerard@seibercom.net