Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 21:51:00 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: upgrading perl 5.005 to 5.6.1 Message-ID: <20020104215100.G38258@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <20020104202036.PQCZ20119.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@rwcrwbc55> References: <20020104202036.PQCZ20119.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@rwcrwbc55>
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> From: ttop13@attbi.com > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd) > Subject: RE: upgrading perl 5.005 to 5.6.1 > Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 20:20:34 +0000 > > In my freshly installed 4.4-Release, the > file /usr/ports/lang/perl5/pkg-descr says "This port is > marked FORBIDDEN as it conflics[sic] badly with the > Perl5 that is in the 'base' system. roman@roman ports/lang/perl5 > cat pkg-descr Perl is a language that combines some of the features of C, sed, awk and shell. See the manual page for more hype. There are also many published by O'Reilly & Assoc. See pod/perlbook.pod for more information. - MarkM > If I mirror the directory > ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/- > current/ports/lang/perl5 to my /usr/ports/lang/perl5 > directory (after removing the original files) and then > try "make", I get (oddly) the error "perl-5.005.tar.gz > is not in /usr/ports/lang/perl5/distinfo." (even though > this distinfo is from the newly downloaded port and > distinfo doesn't mention that filename). > > I'm probably doing some obvious thing wrong, but I can't > seem to figure that out. Seems so. Erm, why don't you just update your ports tree? Configure cvsup, frob a know in /etc/make.conf, and then you can just > cd /usr/ports && make update -- FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE 9:48PM up 9 days, 8:26, 17 users, load averages: 0.13, 0.05, 0.03 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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