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Date:      Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:07:20 +0400
From:      rihad <rihad@mail.ru>
To:        jhell <jhell@DataIX.net>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Using Perl 5.8.8
Message-ID:  <4B59BF28.2010801@mail.ru>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001212130001.58133@pragry.qngnvk.ybpny>
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jhell wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:02, rihad@ wrote:
>> Matthew Seaman wrote:
>>> rihad wrote:
>>>> Hi, one of the programs I'm using (freeradius' rlm_perl) segfaults 
>>>> with both Perl 5.8.9 and 5.10, only working with 5.8.8. How can I 
>>>> cleanly install Perl 5.8.8 on a fresh system, without mangling the 
>>>> port Makefile? I've tried putting both USE_PERL=5.8.8 and 
>>>> PERL_VERSION=5.8.8 in /etc/make.conf, but "make fetch" still tries 
>>>> to fetch version 5.8.9.
>>>
>>> portdowngrade is what you'ld have to use.  However, perl-5.8.8 has known
>>> security vulnerabilities:
>>>
>>>    
>>> http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/4a99d61c-f23a-11dd-9f55-0030843d3802.html
>>>
>>> Would definitely be better to get your program to work with a current
>>> version of perl.
>>>
>> Thanks for pointing this out. However, portdowngrade doesn't help me 
>> much:
>>
>> # portdowngrade -s:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs 
>> lang/perl5.8
>>
>> portdowngrade 0.6 by Heiner Eichmann
>> Please note, that nothing is changed in the ports tree
>> unless it is explicitly permitted in step 6!
>>
>> Seeking port lang/perl5.8 ... not found
>> #
>>
> 
> This will work out for you.
> 
> PERL_PORT=perl5.10
> 
Nope, it doesn't. I now have this in /etc/make.conf:
USE_PERL=5.8.8
PERL_VERSION=5.8.8
PERL_PORT=perl5.8

Nevertheless portmaster -v lang/perl5.8 still tries to fetch perl 5.8.9, 
not 5.8.8. portdowngrade doesn't work at all either:

# portdowngrade -s:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs 
lang/perl5.8

portdowngrade 0.6 by Heiner Eichmann
Please note, that nothing is changed in the ports tree
unless it is explicitly permitted in step 6!

Seeking port lang/perl5.8 ... not found
#



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