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Date:      Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:41:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Douglas Berry <bitnix@bitnix.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: portmaster packages and perl upgrade 
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1007211140160.1737@qbhto.arg>
In-Reply-To: <201007211504.o6LF43Ak003342@monk.cnd.dundas.on.ca>
References:  <201007211504.o6LF43Ak003342@monk.cnd.dundas.on.ca>

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On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Douglas Berry wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:45:18 PDT, Doug Barton wrote:
>> soooooo ... is the blob that gets added to make.conf after you
>> install  ports-mgmt/portconf in both make.conf files?
>
> Yes.
>
>> I'm thinking that packages/Latest/perl is stale. Can  you check it?
>> If it is stale, updating it should do the trick. If it's not, then
>> there  is more debugging to do.
>
> Thank you for that!  After changing from...
> /usr/ports/packages/Latest/perl.tbz -> ../All/perl-5.10.1_2.tbz
> to...
> /usr/ports/packages/Latest/perl.tbz -> ../All/perl-5.12.1.tbz
> all works fine.

Ok, that's good news! :)

> I presume this is due to...
>
> ~/ports> grep LATEST lang/perl5.*/Makefile
> lang/perl5.10/Makefile:LATEST_LINK=     perl
> lang/perl5.12/Makefile:NO_LATEST_LINK=  yes
> lang/perl5.8/Makefile:NO_LATEST_LINK=   yes

Yeah, looks like I need to change that logic for local packagedirs a 
bit.

> Thanks very much for portmaster!

You're welcome. :)


Doug

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