Friday, 12 February 2010 at 21:03:54 +0000, Matthew Seaman said: > 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
OK - that seems inconvenient, but I guess it makes sense. I remember some stuff on the list about this earlier now that you mention it. Seems to have made a bit of a hassle of replacing one port with another. Thanks for the advice. Peter. > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard, Flat 3 > Black Earth Consulting Ramsgate > Kent, CT11 9PW > Free and Open Source Solutions Tel: +44 (0)1843 580647 > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"