On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 02:59:59PM +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > ... > | and retried "portmaster -ad" (to builld/install the previously-failed > | misc/gimp-help-en); I still see a very similar-looking failure: > > I amended the UPDATING entry earlier today, adding: > > If your Perl package name is not called perl5-5.xx.y but perl5.xx-5.xx.y, > you > will need to rename it so that portupgrade doesn't get confused: > > pkg set -n perl5.xx:perl5
OK; did that (to all of my affected machines, so I would be less likely to have an opportunity to forget); re-tried "portmaster -ad", and: SUCCESS! :-) ... ===> Installing for en-gimp-help-html-2.8.1_2 ===> Checking if en-gimp-help-html already installed ===> Registering installation for en-gimp-help-html-2.8.1_2 Installing en-gimp-help-html-2.8.1_2... ===>>> Upgrade of en-gimp-help-html-2.8.1_1 to en-gimp-help-html-2.8.1_2 succeeded ===>>> Returning to update check of installed ports ===>>> Update check of installed ports complete ===>>> The following actions were performed: Upgrade of en-gimp-help-html-2.8.1_1 to en-gimp-help-html-2.8.1_2 Script done on Tue Sep 15 06:10:15 2015 g1-252(10.2-S)[7] echo $? 0 > Note that it's not a replacement for setting the DEFAULT_VERSION in > make.conf. Roger that. Already done (for all of the above-mentioned machines), now that I know about the UPDATING entry. > I'll add portmaster to the list, as it seems it's getting confused too. (It > did not in my testing.) Ah, well -- you tried. :-} Thanks for your help! Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill da...@catwhisker.org Those who would murder in the name of God or prophet are blasphemous cowards. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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