Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:29:59 -0400 From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmanager ignoring update perl Message-ID: <20060820172648.2332.GERARD@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <44E8D116.8060308@enabled.com> References: <44E8D116.8060308@enabled.com>
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Noah wrote: > I am running portmanager and updating all dependencies along the way. I > am finding that perl gets updated to the system version. I want to keep > it to version 5.8. . FreeBSD4-11 is my OS. > > so in order to get portmanager to stop updating perl do I add the > following to /usr/local/etc/portmanager/pm-020.conf > > ---- snip --- > > IGNORE|lang/perl5.8| > > > --- snip --- > > > will that work? It should work. I have it configured to ignore JAVA and OpenOfice. It just issues a message in the log that the port is being ignored. Out of curiosity, why can you not run a newer version of Perl on that OS? -- Gerard Seibert gerard@seibercom.net
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