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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?


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Gerard Seibert
gerard@seibercom.net




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