From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 29 13:28:32 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B90A51065784 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:28:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net (asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net [207.145.128.243]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89E2C8FC23 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:28:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.42]) by asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23888A71578 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:27:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 22066 invoked from network); 29 Aug 2012 13:27:46 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.4.0 ppid: 29077, pid: 20367, t: 0.1637s scanners: clamav: 0.88.2/m:52/d:10739 Received: from unknown (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 29 Aug 2012 13:27:46 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id AD08F33C24; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:27:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Lowell Gilbert To: Jack Stone References: <503BF131.4030803@sage-american.com> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:27:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <503BF131.4030803@sage-american.com> (Jack Stone's message of "Mon, 27 Aug 2012 17:14:09 -0500") Message-ID: <44ehmp3k1a.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading perl X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:28:32 -0000 Jack Stone writes: > uname -a FreeBSD mail.sagedata.net 7.0-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD > 7.0-RELEASE-p9 #2: Sun Jan 18 19:59:27 CST 2009 > > Running perl5.10 (yeah, old!) > This is a production server. > > > Been playing catchup on ports including perl as UPDATING recommends: > portupgrade -o lang/perl5.12 -f perl-5.10.\* > > That has worked on other servers, but not this one. Anyone know what I > need to do to clean this up?? > > But, can't get past this fatal error: > mail# portupgrade -o lang/perl5.12 -f perl-5.10.\* > "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.options.mk", line 231: Error in archive > specification: "WITHOUT_" > "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.options.mk", line 231: Error in archive > specification: "WITHOUT_" > make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue > ** Makefile possibly broken: lang/perl5.12: You're almost four years past the end-of-life on the release you're running, so it's been left behind in terms of support. In this case it looks (based on a *very* quick look) that you may be running into changes in how make(1) actually works, in which case backporting the ports functionality will be more work than it's worth. If the machine "can't" be updated, and assuming it's secure (which hard to be sure about with old software on the Internet), you may be best off leaving it alone. Good luck.