From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 12 21:26:13 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E10EE106566B for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:26:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter.piggybox@virgin.net) Received: from mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.49]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FD4C8FC17 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:26:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from know-smtpout-4.server.virginmedia.net ([62.254.123.4]) by mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (InterMail vM.7.08.04.00 201-2186-134-20080326) with ESMTP id <20100212212612.OJEK10950.mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@know-smtpout-4.server.virginmedia.net>; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:26:12 +0000 Received: from [86.25.232.185] (helo=laptop.piggybox) by know-smtpout-4.server.virginmedia.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Ng31g-0004zt-CD; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:26:12 +0000 Received: from laptop.piggybox (localhost.piggybox [127.0.0.1]) by laptop.piggybox (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o1CLQE75044658; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:26:14 GMT (envelope-from peter@laptop.piggybox) Received: (from peter@localhost) by laptop.piggybox (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o1CLQEmu044657; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:26:14 GMT (envelope-from peter) Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:26:14 +0000 From: Peter Harrison To: Adam Vande More Message-ID: <20100212212614.GB44419@laptop.piggybox> References: <20100212204458.GA44419@laptop.piggybox> <6201873e1002121250y855fac7v7c53b970cd93463@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6201873e1002121250y855fac7v7c53b970cd93463@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=W3tOLUehizD4qj6VhtReFuw5MKb8d+XqjIxlDsIazEA= c=1 sm=0 a=8RloEfZUAAAA:8 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=c2i0Ge7yyLu50Roz3r4A:9 a=qDoWFlMnVDrxAUy2qdsA:7 a=0jZVPEit3gVz3n0WByY1TRmiLj0A:4 a=O58u2wXj750A:10 a=SV7veod9ZcQA:10 a=HpAAvcLHHh0Zw7uRqdWCyQ==:117 Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Peter Harrison Subject: Re: Perl upgrade problem... 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: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:26:14 -0000 Friday, 12 February 2010 at 14:50:56 -0600, Adam Vande More said: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Peter Harrison > 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