Finally getting back to this...sigh...
On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:10:54 -0400 Lowell Gilbert
<freebsd-ports-lo...@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
>Scott Bennett <benn...@cs.niu.edu> writes:
>
>> What is the best way to install OpenOffice.org from a package without
>> the installation trying to reinstall perl5.8 over perl5.10?
>
>Get a package that includes them?
Do you have any suggestions of where to find such a beast?
>
>Short of that, you would have to install the package without
>dependencies. There is a pkg_add option to do this, but the
Sure, but OOo is so huge and requires so much other stuff
that there is almost certainly something it wants installed that
I do not already have installed.
>trick comes afterwards, when you have to fix it up to use the
>perl you actually have (perl-after-upgrade(1) might be able to
>handle this, but you have no guarantees.). Or you could just
Why wouldn't OOo, once installed, simply use whatever were
installed as /usr/local/bin/perl?
It seems to me that the bigger worry it that portmaster may
try to rebuild it whenever a -a option is used. portmanager, OTOH,
has a -u option that might do the job. portupgrade, of course,
can have all sorts of things blocked from upgrading by putting the
proper magic into /etc/portupgrade.conf. If only portmaster had
a similar way of doing things. Since so many people now advocate
using either portmanager or portmaster to do general upgrades (-a),
rather than portupgrade -a, I guess portmanager is the only method
available to keep OOo from being rebuilt whenever one of its
dependencies gets upgraded.
>install both perl versions; they should be able to coexist
>just fine.
>
That would be nice and reasonably simple if it were an option.
Unfortunately, the two versions are incompatible.
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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