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Date:      Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:51:40 -0500
From:      David Booth <davidb@boothscientific.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can I resume the perl upgrade?
Message-ID:  <200904101651.41029.davidb@boothscientific.com>
In-Reply-To: <EAC6A7469BFB3926550D982F@utd65257.utdallas.edu>
References:  <486EACE56EE9A4FF9B93958A@utd65257.utdallas.edu> <20090410214716.1ff1bd91@gumby.homeunix.com> <EAC6A7469BFB3926550D982F@utd65257.utdallas.edu>

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On Friday 10 April 2009, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On Friday, April 10, 2009 15:47:16 -0500 RW
> <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:45:22 +0000
> >
> > Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> wrote:
> >> > Have portupgrade exclude the ports built after perl.
> >> >
> >> > portupgrade -fr perl -x '>=perl'
> >>
> >> This immediately started upgrade perl again, so I halted it.
> >
> > Then either you've found a portupgrade bug, or the original build
> > failed before the first port (perl) could be installed.
>
> Perhaps I have found a bug.  Each time I run this it reinstalls
> perl5.10 again - successfully (supposedly).

Try a little different syntax:


portupgrade -fr -x '>=perl' perl 


Also, you can use the -n switch (noexecute) to test what will happen.

i.e. test with


portupgrade -nfr -x '>=perl' perl 



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