On 02/12/2013 19:41, Michael Higgins wrote: > Hey, all -- > > I have two systems, one of which got perl 5.16.1, somehow. My other > system is still at perl 5.12... and I'm having a heck of a time trying > to upgrade that system to 5.16.1. > > Is there some trick that I should recall? > > This is what I tried: > > USE="-build" emerge -v =dev-lang/perl-5.16.1 > > And this is what I got: > > (dev-lang/perl-5.12.4-r1::gentoo, installed) pulled in by > ~dev-lang/perl-5.12.4 required by > (virtual/perl-i18n-langtags-0.35::gentoo, installed) > > (dev-lang/perl-5.16.1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in > by =dev-lang/perl-5.16.1 > >=dev-lang/perl-5.16 required by > (dev-perl/IO-Socket-SSL-1.840.0::gentoo, installed) > =dev-lang/perl-5.16* required by > (virtual/perl-digest-base-1.170.0-r1::gentoo, installed) (and 144 > more with the same problems) > > 144 more with the same problem? There must be some incantation that > handles all that, no? > > Thanks for any pointers, foax! > > Cheers, > > - Michael Higgins > > > >
emerge -avuND world Why 5.16.1? that is the lowest version that is ~arch; your next sync and update is going to want to upgrade it anyway. Lots of things have been moving around in perl land, modules moving into core etc etc. A proper world update takes care of all the necessary blockers. Or, seeing as you are going to remerge everything perl related anyway, you might as well just undelete everything perl-related (keeping an accurate list), and then merge the whole lot back -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
