Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:01:41 -0500 (CDT) From: Denny White <dennyboy@cableone.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Help Needed on cpan-perl-portupgrade Message-ID: <20050813095322.I17089@dualman.cableone.net>
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Message originally "cpan/bsdpan/ports need help". Really need help here. I really botched up perl & cpan & can no longer do some portugrading, either, that I need. Pasting the original message with threads in below here. Hate to reinstall system, since all other is working okay. Original thread here: > Denny White wrote: > > I had read where it was better to use ports than cpan > modules. I had originally used cpan because of updating > the virus data files for f-prot, before I knew I could > do it with portupgrade. I got tired of seeing ports held > by user & had trouble trying to force some of them to > upgrade, so I took out the bsdpan portion from: > >> From /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf > > HOLD_PKGS = [ > 'bsdpan-*', > ] > Now I can't do anything with cpan, including installing some > ports. Here's the output from cpan: > > Cannot load ExtUtils::MakeMaker: Can't locate ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm > in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/mach > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/mach > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7 .) @ (eval 4) line 1. > > Begin failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.87/BSDPAN/ > ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm line 17. > Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/CPAN.pm > line 16. > Begin failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/CPAN.pm > line 16. > > Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/bin/cpan line 119. > Begin failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/cpan line 119. > > Below are the ports that got upgraded when this whole fiasco > started, due to my ignorance about perl, cpan, and ports and > their interdependencies: > > total 10994 > drwxr-xr-x 9 root wheel 512 Aug 11 08:19 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 10726400 Aug 11 02:07 pkgdb.db > drwxr-xr-x 246 root wheel 7168 Aug 11 02:07 . > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 11 02:04 p5-Time-HiRes-1.72,1 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 11 02:03 p5-CGI.pm-3.10_1,1 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 11 02:02 txt2html-2.41 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 11 02:02 p5-PathTools-3.09 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 11 02:02 > p5-ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.12 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 11 02:02 > p5-ExtUtils-ParseXS-2.07 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 11 02:02 > p5-Module-Build-0.26.11 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 11 02:02 p5-Archive-Tar-1.23_1 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 11 00:57 bsdpan-Test-Pod-1.20 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 11 00:57 > bsdpan-Test-Builder-Tester-1.01 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 11 00:57 bsdpan-Storable-2.15 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 11 00:57 bsdpan-Pod-Simple-3.02 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 11 00:57 > bsdpan-Pod-Escapes-1.04 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 11 00:57 bsdpan-MD5-2.03 > > Any help greatly appreciated on how to fix this. > Denny White > > the bsdpan-PathTools is how the ports are named when not building from > the ports collection (from what i understand). my only solution (and it > shouldn't take too much time) is to deinstall it and build from ports. GnuPG key : 0x1644E79A | http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net Fingerprint: D0A9 AD44 1F10 E09E 0E67 EC25 CB44 F2E5 1644 E79A
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