From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 4 13: 1: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ycn.com (mail.ycn.com [212.88.160.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CFB537B41D for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 13:00:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from ws01 (212-88-187-192.ADSL.ycn.com [212.88.187.192]) by mail.ycn.com (8.11.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with SMTP id g04L2AK04080; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 22:02:11 +0100 From: "Richard Kaestner" To: Cc: Subject: RE: upgrading perl 5.005 to 5.6.1 Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 22:11:58 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just installed the port without troubles. But see Roman's message - seems your ports tree is not up-to-date -- ciao - Richard "you have moved your mouse, please reboot to make this change take effect" Richard Kastner Woerthgasse 17 2500 Baden mailto:richard.kaestner@ycn.com Austria > -----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 > > -- > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message