Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 22:11:58 +0100 From: "Richard Kaestner" <richard.kaestner@ycn.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <ttop13@attbi.com> Subject: RE: upgrading perl 5.005 to 5.6.1 Message-ID: <C1F8152FC5A1D31196510000B4301486030FE1@saturn> In-Reply-To: <C1F8152FC5A1D31196510000B4301486054EBF@saturn>
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I just installed the port without troubles.
But see Roman's message - seems your ports tree is not up-to-date
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of
> Roman Neuhauser
> Sent: Freitag, 04. Janner 2002 21:51
> To: freebsd
> Subject: Re: upgrading perl 5.005 to 5.6.1
>
>
> > 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
>
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