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Subject: Re: Perl port to select in make.conf
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:23:33 -0500
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On Tue, Sep 3, 2013, at 8:59, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Mark Felder wrote:
> 
> > > which variable should be defined in make.conf to switch from current 5.14
> > > to, 
> > > say, 5.16 (for poudriere package building)? 
> > > 
> > > Naive 
> > > 
> > > PERL_VER=5.16
> > > 
> > > does not seem to work, and I want to not chase minor version changes.
> > > 
> > 
> > PERL_PORT
> > 
> > example:
> > 
> > PERL_PORT=perl5.14
> 
> Unfortunately, this variable seems to be slave to PERL_VERSION, not vice
> versa.
> 

I've been using solely PERL_PORT in my poudriere make.conf for about...
8 months now with no issues. I get exactly the perl train I want and all
ports are built properly against the version I want. Can you provide any
details indicating this method is incorrect?