From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 20 21:34:15 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 06D4D16A4E0 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:34:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from admin2@enabled.com) Received: from typhoon.enabled.com (typhoon.enabled.com [216.218.220.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4387B43D5E for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:34:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from admin2@enabled.com) Received: from [172.24.241.19] (natint3.juniper.net [66.129.224.36]) (authenticated bits=0) by typhoon.enabled.com (8.13.8/8.13.7) with ESMTP id k7KLYEOD094744 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:34:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from admin2@enabled.com) Message-ID: <44E8D54B.9010808@enabled.com> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:34:03 -0700 From: Noah User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Macintosh/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <44E8D116.8060308@enabled.com> <20060820172648.2332.GERARD@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <20060820172648.2332.GERARD@seibercom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: portmanager ignoring update perl 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: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:34:15 -0000 Gerard Seibert wrote: > 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? > > > I am running the newest version of PERL. I am running perl 5.8.8 which is the latets port. for some reason when I am running portmanager and update dependencies it wants to reverts perl back to the system perl. any clues how to keep perl updated but not set to the system port? cheers, Noah