Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:24:56 -0700 From: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com> To: Abu Khaled <khaled.abu@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmanager and perl threaded Message-ID: <200506302124.57656.ringworm01@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <a64c109e050630210348446b4c@mail.gmail.com> References: <a64c109e0506281800a2634c8@mail.gmail.com> <200506300043.29761.ringworm01@gmail.com> <a64c109e050630210348446b4c@mail.gmail.com>
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[snippage by Mike] > > > > Abu, I tried adding lang/perl5.8|WITH_THREADS=yes| to my pm-020.conf > > and now I have /var/db/pkg/perl-threaded-5.8.7, this causes every port > > that depends on perl to be rebuilt, that is normal and desirable. I've > > let portmanager run after adding WITH_THREADS=yes and everything is > > working good, I recommend you do the same. If you set perl to be ignored > > no port that depends on perl will ever be upgraded, you won't be happy > > with that most likely. > > > > My opinon is that you "fixing the dependencies" by running pkgdb -F may > > cause you problems, what your doing is forcing ports that were compiled > > with non threaded perl to work with threaded perl, you really should let > > portmanager run its course and properly update the ports affected by the > > threaded perl option. > > > > -Mike > > After allowing 'portmanager' to rebuild everything depending on 'perl' > the problem was solved. > I have been using 'portupgrade' for some time and wanted to solve > things by taking a shortcut. This time it led me into a maze. > Thanks again for showing me the way out. Your very welcome! -Mike
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