Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:21:24 +0400 From: rihad <rihad@mail.ru> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: forcing ports to use Perl 5.8.8 Message-ID: <4AF28B04.2000301@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <4AF2800B.1040201@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4AF26A47.1040200@mail.ru> <4AF2800B.1040201@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman wrote: > rihad wrote: >> Hello, I need to install security/p5-Digest-HMAC from the ports, but >> _only_ with the currently installed Perl 5.8.8, without it being >> upgraded to 5.8.9 as a dependency (because some other software dumps >> core with Perl 5.8.9). How can I as a user cleanly tell the system to >> stay with 5.8.8 and still be able to upgrade any other port, even all >> of them? I have in /etc/make.conf: >> >> PERL_VER=5.8.8 >> PERL_VERSION=5.8.8 >> >> but this isn't enough. >> /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.perl.mk has several knobs, which ones can I set in >> /etc/make.conf to achieve what I need (stay with perl 5.8.8)? > > Basically, just don't upgrade perl. The various perl modules will adapt to > whatever version is installed. > If you use portupgrade(1) et al, add 'perl-*' to the HOLD_PKGS array in > /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf. If you use portmaster(1), create a file > +IGNOREME in /var/db/pkg/perl-5.8.8/ Yes, I'm using portmaster. Should /var/db/pkg/perl-5.8.8_1/+IGNOREME be an empty file? Thank you!
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