2008/11/15 Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 2008/11/15 10:24, Juan Miscaro wrote: >> >> Thanks for the reminder. I managed to remove many Perl modules. The >> thing is that they were installed via CPAN so pkg_delete could not be >> used (I used a Perl script instead). >> >> A lot of the stuff on that page does not apply to me because I am not >> building/compiling a release but overwriting files with snapshots. >> Unless I'm missing something? > > Basically: any XS modules must be rebuilt. Some other software > won't work and will need an upgrade. We've already done the hard > work for things in packages, if you don't use that then we can't > really help you, you'll have to handle it yourself. > > Seems like new LWP is probably a good start. > >> Sadly, my situation remains the same [1]. >> >> Do you have any other advice? >> >> /juan >> >> [1] >> >> $ cpan >> CPAN: File::HomeDir loaded ok (v0.69) >> Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at >> /usr/libdata/perl5/i386-openbsd/5.10.0/DynaLoader.pm line 226. >> Use of uninitialized value $len in bitwise and (&) at (eval 275) line 1. >> Use of uninitialized value $len in bitwise and (&) at (eval 277) line 1. >> >> cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9205) >> ReadLine support enabled >> >> cpan[1]> install Unix::Syslog >> CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.18) >> Going to read /var/cpan/Metadata >> Database was generated on Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:26:49 GMT >> CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok (v2.036) >> CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9711) >> Fetching with LWP: >> ftp://CPAN.mirror.rafal.ca/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz >> LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't use an undefined value as a >> symbol reference] >> Fetching with Net::FTP: >> ftp://CPAN.mirror.rafal.ca/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz >> Catching error: 'Can\'t use an undefined value as a symbol reference >> at /usr/libdata/perl5/Net/FTP/dataconn.pm line 54. >> ' at /usr/libdata/perl5/CPAN.pm line 281 >> CPAN::shell() called at /usr/bin/cpan line 198 >> Fetching with LWP: >> ftp://CPAN.mirror.rafal.ca/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz >> LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't use an undefined value as a >> symbol reference] >> Fetching with Net::FTP: >> ftp://CPAN.mirror.rafal.ca/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz >> Lockfile removed. >> Can't use an undefined value as a symbol reference at >> /usr/libdata/perl5/Net/FTP/dataconn.pm line 54. >
I've tried to go the all-packages way but there are often packages missing. For instance, I just tried to install snapshot packages and there isn't any 'libghttp' available. This is a huge package (it's a dependency of libwww). /juan