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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:39:01 -0800
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Subject: Re: Using Perl 5.8.8
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On 1/22/2010 7:07 AM, rihad wrote:
> 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,

Portmaster only works with what's in your ports tree, it does not have
any built-in capability to go back in time. If you wanted to use
portmaster to do this you could adjust the port to the version you
wanted and then invoke the command you posted.


hth,

Doug

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