On 12/02/2010 20:50, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Peter Harrison > <peter.piggy...@virgin.net>wrote: > >> Up till now I've kept Perl on my machine at 5.8.9. I now see from UPDATING >> that upgrading to 5.10 is recommended. >> >> However, when I follow the instructions, I get the following error: >> >> laptop# portupgrade -o lang/perl5.10 -f perl-5.8.9_3 >> > > if you're referring to this: > > 20090911: > AFFECTS: users of lang/perl5.10 > AUTHOR: s...@freebsd.org > > lang/perl5.10 has been updated to 5.10.1. You should update everything > that depends on perl. The easiest way to do that is to use > "perl-after-upgrade" script supplied with lang/perl5.10. Please see its > manual page for details. > > If you want switch to lang/perl5.10 from lang/perl5.8 please follow > instructions in the entry 20090328 in this file. > > Then you have misunderstood what it's saying. That only applies to folks > already running 5.10 and if you have no need for that then do nothing > further. If you really believe you need to run 5.10 then you should follow > the complete instructions from the entry. >
Err... he's following the right instructions. It's just that since
those instructions were written there have been some badly thought-out
changes in bsd.ports.mk. Any time you try and use portupgrade to
replace one port with another now, you'll likely need to tell it to
ignore CONFLICTS settings:
# portupgrade -m DISABLE_CONFLICTS=yes -o lang/perl5.10 \
-f perl-5.8.9_3
Then reinstall every port that depends on perl -- you can't use
perl_after_upgrade for this update: the delta in version numbers is too
large.
Cheers,
Matthew
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