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Subject: Re: Can I resume the perl upgrade?
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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