Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:17:33 -0700 From: David Southwell <david@vizion2000.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> Subject: Re: Can I resume the perl upgrade? Message-ID: <200904150917.33930.david@vizion2000.net> In-Reply-To: <200904150835.18949.david@vizion2000.net> References: <486EACE56EE9A4FF9B93958A@utd65257.utdallas.edu> <20090415122737.GA51442@ei.bzerk.org> <200904150835.18949.david@vizion2000.net>
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On Wednesday 15 April 2009 08:35:18 David Southwell wrote: > On Wednesday 15 April 2009 05:27:37 you wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 08:01:28AM -0700, David Southwell typed: > > > On Tuesday 14 April 2009 05:20:35 Ruben de Groot wrote: > > > > > > Perhaps you should start a new thread. > > > > > > > > > > > > Chris > > > > > > > > > > Tried that last week to no avail > > > > > So asmy question was vaguely on topic I had hoped someone might be > > > > > able to contribute something useful!! > > > > > > > > If you can send a reply-all to the list, you certainly can send a new > > > > question, can't you? Hijacking threads *is* considered > > > > rude/ignorant/dumb by some. > > > > > > > > That said, Pod::Perldoc seems to be part of perl-5.8.[8-9] on my > > > > systems, so unless you're doing some nonstandard things with this > > > > package, I suggest you just pkg_delete the bsdpan package and get on > > > > with it. > > > > > > Hi Ruben > > > > > > Sorry to get cross with you but it has been clear from your responses > > > that you have not actually troubled to read the detail of what I > > > posted. The origibnal posting refrred to the issue as being one that > > > came as a result of doing something similar to the OP for the thread. > > > There was a second part (relating to getting the info on bsdpan into > > > the DB. > > > > My "responses" ??? > > Sorry, but this was my first response to anything you've posted on this > > list. > > > > > a. If you had read carefully you would have found that I have already > > > tried: posting another thread > > > > Tried searching the archives a bit but sorry. What can possibly go wrong > > with sending an new email to questions@freebsd.org? You tried and failed? > > that's pretty weird! > > > > > b. I had already tried pkg_delete without success. > > > > What is the error? Tried pkg_delete -f? > > > > > c. I had tried package_deinstall again without success. > > > > You probably mean pkg_deinstall. What what the error? which options did > > you use? > > > > > d. I am totally puzzled why bsdpan-Pod_Perldoc should be showing a > > > dependency on perl-5.8-9 when I have upgraded to 10. > > > > Ehm, is there maybe something like this in your /etc/make.conf? > > > > # more /etc/make.conf > > # added by use.perl 2008-05-07 04:31:59 > > PERL_VER=5.8.9 > > PERL_VERSION=5.8.9 > > > > When you upgrade to something that's not (yet) in the ports tree, and you > > don't completely know what you're doing, Puzzling Things(TM) might > > happen. Live with it. > > > > Ruben > > I do not know what you are on but it is well past time you brought your > ports tree up to date -- perl5.10 has been in the tree since April 5th. Sorry I should have said 28th March 2009 -- see UPDATING > > [root@dns1 /usr/ports/lang]# ls -l |grep perl > drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Jan 30 04:48 eperl > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jul 2 2008 linux-libperl5.8 > drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Mar 4 2007 pecl-perl > drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Apr 14 14:56 perl5.10 > drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Mar 11 01:49 perl5.6 > drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Mar 26 08:48 perl5.8 > drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Apr 9 06:47 ruby-perl > > > Thanks again.. it seems as though you are not reading things carefully. I > do not know why but why do you feel the need to snipe - and do so based > upon incorrect assumptions? > > I had previously checked my make.conf to see if it had any hangovers from > the earlier version in the ports tree but that had been correctly changed > during the upgrade. > > It reads: > PERL_VERSION=5.10. > > Thanks again > David > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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