From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Nov 1 06:13:20 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AC7C17F0FC for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2019 06:13:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfg@tristatelogic.com) Received: from outgoing.tristatelogic.com (segfault.tristatelogic.com [69.62.255.118]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 474BhH25Gnz3KM3 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2019 06:13:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfg@tristatelogic.com) Received: by segfault.tristatelogic.com (Postfix, from userid 1237) id F2D0A4E684; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 23:13:17 -0700 (PDT) From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help wanted: Install of p5-JSON-Parse removes Perl ??? In-Reply-To: <2b4dbaff-9eb3-4e9d-bf62-505683dc7ce1@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <60170.1572588797.1@segfault.tristatelogic.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 23:13:17 -0700 Message-ID: <60171.1572588797@segfault.tristatelogic.com> X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 474BhH25Gnz3KM3 X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of rfg@tristatelogic.com designates 69.62.255.118 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=rfg@tristatelogic.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.12 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[tristatelogic.com]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; IP_SCORE(-2.82)[ip: (-7.41), ipnet: 69.62.128.0/17(-3.70), asn: 14051(-2.94), country: US(-0.05)]; RCVD_COUNT_ZERO(0.00)[0]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:14051, ipnet:69.62.128.0/17, country:US]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 06:13:20 -0000 In message <2b4dbaff-9eb3-4e9d-bf62-505683dc7ce1@gmail.com>, = MJ wrote: >> Yeabut is that a good excuse to render my already installed Perl >> non-functional, which is exactly what happened? > >Well what's it to do? If you have one package dependent on 5.28.2 and ano= ther = >one on 5.30.0 then it has no choice. Yes, it does. Stop and require manual intervention is a reasonable choice= . >Perhaps what would be preferred is that it stops any install and tells yo= u >that the package needs 5.30.0 and you have installed 5.28.2? That would >seem more logical. We agree. >> But that seems like a minor concern at this point. Far more troubling >> is the fact that pkg, in its infinite wisdom, somehow decided to instal= l >> two versions of Perl at the same time, breaking both in the process. > > From afar it didn't break both, it just failed to add a softlink. Is tha= t not > the case? I am able to answer that question definitely at this point in time, hoever now that I have Perl back and working again I see that the /usr/local/bin/= perl file on my system is quite distinctly and certainly *not* a synmlink, and also, the file inseld is showing up on ls -l as having a link count of 1. >> >> I hope that somebody will look at that. > >Well, nobody here will unless the maintainer for perl is active. If you w= ant >this looked at, I suggest contacting the port maintainer and/or raising a >bug report. ACK Regards, rfg