Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 01:03:23 -0700 (PDT) From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/156492: Multiple versions of Perl not supported Message-ID: <201104190803.p3J83N3c000796@dragon.nuxi.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201104190810.p3J8AAfs072497@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 156492
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: Multiple versions of Perl not supported
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: high
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Apr 19 08:10:09 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: David O'Brien
>Release: FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
The FreeBSD Project
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD dragon.NUXI.org 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #662 r218815:218845M: Tue Feb 22 00:13:31 PST 2011 rootk@dragon.NUXI.org:/sys/i386/compile/DRAGON i386
>Description:
One often needs various versions of Perl installed on a FreeBSD system.
Either one has old Perl scripts, or during the transition from one
Perl version to a newer one.
Other than ${PREFIX}/bin/perl and the man pages, multiple versions
of Perl can easily co-exist. The specific version desired
can be specified by ${PREFIX}/bin/perl${VERSION}.
>How-To-Repeat:
pkg_add perl-5.8.9_4*
pkg_add perl-5.10.1_3*
# see the conflict warning
pkg_add perl-5.8.9_4*
rm /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.9
mv /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.9
mv /var/db/pkg/perl-5.8.9_4 /var/db/pkg/XXXperl-5.8.9_4
pkg_add perl-5.10.1_3*
rm /usr/local/bin/perl5.10.1
mv /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/perl5.10.1
(cd /usr/local/bin ; ln -s perl5.10.1 perl)
mv /var/db/pkg/XXXperl-5.8.9_4 /var/db/pkg/perl-5.8.9_4
>Fix:
Change the ports to not install a ${PREFIX}/bin/perl and instead
have a mechanism for what version of perl the ${PREFIX}/bin/perl
should be a symlink to.
Or leverage the nice way of dealing with multiple MTA's (e.g. sendmail
and postfix) using mailwrapper(8) and its '/etc/mail/mailer.conf'
configuration file. Maybe it could be leveraged for Perl.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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