Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:14:17 -0800 From: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Certain perl ports overlapping with perl-5.8.2 install Message-ID: <1075425257.93790.21.camel@gorf.lovett.com>
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With my dinkering around with perl5.8.2, I've run into something of a
problem.
A number of ports, so far I have found:
converters/p5-MIME-Base64
devel/p5-Storable
devel/p5-Test-Harness
devel/p5-Test-Simple
devel/p5-Time-HiRes
net/p5-Net
security/p5-Digest-MD5
are also part of the lang/perl5.8 port. Some of the ports are newer
than those in perl5.8, others are the same, still others are older.
However, what this does mean, that the following sequence:
cd ${PORTSDIR}/lang/perl5.8; make install
cd ${PORTSDIR}/{one-of-the-ports-above}; make install deinstall
will end up removing parts of lang/perl5.8 port, resulting in much
hilarity.
With our local ports tree, I've simply added code to these ports to tag
them as BROKEN for appropriate PERL_VERSION value, and then start the
slow slog through the rest of the ports/packages we build to adjust
dependencies accordingly, when a port tries to bring in one of these
"troublemakers" as a dependency.
This is a pretty disgusting hack, so I'm soliciting comments as to the
right way to do this.
-aDe
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