Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:30:38 -0400 From: Jim Trigg <jtrigg@spamcop.net> To: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> Cc: shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [REPOST] problem upgrading perl Message-ID: <20090618133038.GM671@spamcop.net> In-Reply-To: <200906170444.n5H4isBg021636@mp.cs.niu.edu> References: <200906170444.n5H4isBg021636@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:44:54PM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:07:26 +0200 Alexey Shuvaev
> <shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote:
> >Hmmm... Looking at portmaster sources I've got one idea.
> >Can you try more precise command to upgrade everything depending on perl?
> >
> >nice +18 portmaster -v -r perl-threaded-5.10.0_3
> >
> >The point is that perl\* wildcard gives you both perl-threaded-XXX and
> >perltidy-XXXX which might be bad idea.
>
> Bingo!! Very nice call. It has now driven me to distraction with dialog
> boxes for configuration stuff for many ports/packages, and is now busily
> reinstalling perl intself.
> >
> >If this is the case I think UPDATING entry should be improved
> >to use perl-\* wildcard.
>
> I think you meant to *not* use the wildcard, and yes, /usr/ports/UPDATING
> is clearly wrong in this case and should be fixed.
> Thanks very much for solving this. I still have to deal with some
> problems with options on the various packages/ports to be updated, but I can
> proceed for now.
Actually, he was suggesting changing from perl\* to perl-\* so it would
only match the perl port. Unfortunately, that won't work as there is at
least one other port that will match that -- net/p5-perl-ldap (portname
perl-ldap). So it should be revised to instruct users to use the exact
portname in /var/db/pkg.
Jim
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