Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:26:14 +0000 From: Peter Harrison <peter.piggybox@virgin.net> To: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Peter Harrison <peter.piggybox@virgin.net> Subject: Re: Perl upgrade problem... Message-ID: <20100212212614.GB44419@laptop.piggybox> In-Reply-To: <6201873e1002121250y855fac7v7c53b970cd93463@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100212204458.GA44419@laptop.piggybox> <6201873e1002121250y855fac7v7c53b970cd93463@mail.gmail.com>
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Friday, 12 February 2010 at 14:50:56 -0600, Adam Vande More said: > 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. I don't need 5.10, but I was prompted to think about upgrading from 20100205. I was trying to follow 20090328, I ran pkgdb -Ff (no problem) then portupgrade -o lang/per5.10 -f perl-5.8.9 which generated the error given. Peter Harrison. > > -- > Adam Vande More
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