Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 20:52:42 +0000 From: ttop13@attbi.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd) Subject: Re: upgrading perl 5.005 to 5.6.1 Message-ID: <20020104205242.QNUW20119.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@rwcrwbc57>
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Thanks for the reply. I guess if I just installed 4.4-Release I'm not clear why I need an update to ports. Oh well, I don't understand what "Configure cvsup, frob a know in /etc/make.conf" I know what cvs is (but not familiar with cvsup). I have no idea what "frob a know" means. It seems to me that this ports/package stuff with FreeBSD was supposed to make it all much easier and take care of the gory details for me. > > From: ttop13@attbi.com > > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd) > > Subject: RE: upgrading perl 5.005 to 5.6.1 > > Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 20:20:34 +0000 > > > > In my freshly installed 4.4-Release, the > > file /usr/ports/lang/perl5/pkg-descr says "This port is > > marked FORBIDDEN as it conflics[sic] badly with the > > Perl5 that is in the 'base' system. > > roman@roman ports/lang/perl5 > cat pkg-descr > Perl is a language that combines some of the features of C, sed, > awk and shell. See the manual page for more hype. There are also > many published by O'Reilly & Assoc. See pod/perlbook.pod for more > information. > > - MarkM > > > If I mirror the directory > > ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/- > > current/ports/lang/perl5 to my /usr/ports/lang/perl5 > > directory (after removing the original files) and then > > try "make", I get (oddly) the error "perl- 5.005.tar.gz > > is not in /usr/ports/lang/perl5/distinfo." (even though > > this distinfo is from the newly downloaded port and > > distinfo doesn't mention that filename). > > > > I'm probably doing some obvious thing wrong, but I can't > > seem to figure that out. > > Seems so. Erm, why don't you just update your ports tree? > Configure cvsup, frob a know in /etc/make.conf, and then you can > just > > > cd /usr/ports && make update > > -- > FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE > 9:48PM up 9 days, 8:26, 17 users, load averages: 0.13, 0.05, 0.03 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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