Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 16:53:08 -0500 From: Barry Pederson <bp@barryp.org> To: "Jim C. Nasby" <decibel@decibel.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with portupgrade Message-ID: <428FADC4.8020907@barryp.org> In-Reply-To: <20050521204903.GP44623@decibel.org> References: <20050521193508.GO44623@decibel.org> <428F9050.5050400@barryp.org> <20050521204903.GP44623@decibel.org>
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Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 02:47:28PM -0500, Barry Pederson wrote:
>>
>>Did you perhaps upgrade your Perl earlier? so that perhaps the existing
>>installed dependant ports are Perl packages for 5.6.1, but you now have
>>5.6.2 and portupgrade thinks your dependant packages should be for that
>>- but it can't install them because the older versions for 5.6.1 are in
>>place.
>
>
> I did recently go from 5.8 to 5.6. So that means all my perl stuff needs
> to re-install? That doesn't really make any sense...
Yeah, that'll do it. A lot of those Perl modules are not pure Perl, and
contain compiled shared libraries (try; find /usr/local/lib/perl5 -name
"*.so").
It's kind of a pain - I'm not at all a Perl fan myself, but have fought
with it just to get SpamAssassin running. Too bad they don't handle it
the way Python modules are handled, where the same port of a Python
module can be installed multiple times for multiple versions of Python.
Anyhow, /usr/ports/UPGRADING talks about upgrading all Perl
dependencies. This page also quotes the same info
http://www.freshports.org/lang/perl5.8
Barry
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