From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 9 16:20:35 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 665A816A41C for ; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 16:20:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 113E343D46 for ; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 16:20:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 924EA5FA5; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 12:20:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 54959-03; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 12:20:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-54-113.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.54.113]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D65A55C51; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 12:20:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42CFF94D.4050900@mac.com> Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 12:20:29 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim Hogan References: <42CFD2CE.5040802@hoganzoo.com> In-Reply-To: <42CFD2CE.5040802@hoganzoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Port update failure -- How do I fix? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 16:20:35 -0000 Tim Hogan wrote: > So the bottom line is that I love the ports because I am by no means a > programer. As long as I can type make install I am good to go. The > problem is that I just tried to do an upgrade on some ports that were > out of date and I am now getting the error below. A previous version > was installed but now the new version will not install. How do I fix > this? Thanks ahead of time for any help you can provide... The odds are that you will need to install /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8 and do a "use.perl port" in order to build many perl modules, since they expect a newer version of perl than what you seem to have. Look at /usr/ports/CHANGES for more help and suggestions on how to upgrade perl and dependant perl ports in a reasonable fashion. -- -Chuck PS: You should probably discuss port-related questions on