From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jan 6 19:22:57 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA22684 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 19:22:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat0050.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.188.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA22674 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 19:22:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA50254; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 23:21:58 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 23:21:58 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: wghicks@bellsouth.net cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/lang/perl5 In-Reply-To: <3692A212.D8831C0D@glenayre.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org IMHO, the 'bug' is in the system installed version, unless I'm missing something (suidperl is not the solution...) ... setuid perl scripts no longer work. I ended up installing from scratch two nights ago cause all my setuid perl scripts died when I removed the perl5.004 I had in /usr/local :( On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Jerry Hicks wrote: > I see that perl5 port has been marked broken for OSVERSION > 300003, > reasoning that perl5 is now part of the base system. > > It's understandable that a known, tested version is desirable for > the base system but having the port marked broken seems wrong to me. > > Is there some conflict I am not aware of that forces this situation? > > I'm concerned that tracking -stable might cause modules installed > with CPAN and /usr/bin/perl to be spammed by installworld. > > We'd rather install supplements from a /usr/local prefixed perl5 > installation to avoid those problems. > > (Sorry if this is a FAQ). > > Thanks, > > Jerry Hicks > wghicks@bellsouth.net > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message > Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message