On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 01:21:38PM -0800, Scott Haneda wrote:
> On Feb 25, 2009, at 7:03 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> >On Feb 25, 2009, at 12:49 AM, Scott Haneda wrote:
> >>Sorry, I know this has been explained before,
> >
> >yes, very recently.
>
> Can you point me to they "why", not just the solution, I want to
> understand what is the problem?
>
> >>bur I can not find the answer:
> >>
> >>DEBUG: Executing org.macports.activate (p5-mime-base64)
> >>---> Activating p5-mime-base64 @3.07_0
> >>Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/
> >>local/share/man/man3/MIME::Base64.3pm.gz is being used by the
> >>active perl5.8 port. Please deactivate this port first, or use the
> >>-f flag to force the activation.
> >
> >As the error says, you want to use -f to activate in this case.
>
> That feels dirty to me, why not just -f all p5 installs then? If that
> is the real solution, why not have ports look for p5 and auto add the -
> f? I am sure this is a bad idea, but if this is the norm, users are
> more or less going to do this anyway. What are the risks?
>
> >Really, the port should output a note letting you know that you need
> >to do this (and/or we should just decide to order @INC like freebsd
> >ports does so that we don't have to deal with it any more.).
Yes, and this is going to happen... RSN.
For some (if not all) of the p5-* ports that have recently
sprouted problems, its the man pages that are the issue, not the
modules themselves. I haven't had a chance to look into what
can be done to avoid the man page collisions.
Forcing the install with -f isn't the right solution.
It "works" as a band-aid for now, but its not a good thing.
>
>
> I think I just found the trac on this, and read it, it is ancient,
> this seems a pretty good issue to solve. Is there anything I can do
> to move it along?
Yup. Figure out why this is happening for the man pages,
come up with a solid solution (or three), bounce it off the
port maintainer (and maybe this list), then provide patches for
the final solution.
-eric
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