Re: Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Thu, 1 Aug 2013 11:32:47 -0700 (PDT) schrieb "Chris H" : > Greetings Stephen, and thank you for your thoughtful reply. > > On 08/01/2013 10:31 AM, Chris H wrote: > > > >> So, in the end; why did Perl have to be relocated? Is my only > >> recourse at this point to > >> # cd / > >> # rm -rf . > >

Re: Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Chris H
Greetings Stephen, and thank you for your thoughtful reply. > On 08/01/2013 10:31 AM, Chris H wrote: > >> So, in the end; why did Perl have to be relocated? Is my only >> recourse at this point to >> # cd / >> # rm -rf . > > When I get into this kind of bad situation, I usually do something > sligh

Re: Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread J David
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > When I get into this kind of bad situation, I usually do something > slightly less drastic: > # pkg_delete -a This is similar to what we do. However, we add the following step: pkg info -qoa | sort >/tmp/before-ports Then after

Re: Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Chris H
Greetings Mark, and thank you kindly for your extremely thoughtful, and informative reply. > On Thu, Aug 1, 2013, at 11:07, Chris H wrote: >> While that all sounds "dreamy". I don't think setting something >> like that up on a *half* up(graded|dated) server, should even be >> considered. Much less

Re: Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 08/01/2013 10:31 AM, Chris H wrote: > So, in the end; why did Perl have to be relocated? Is my only > recourse at this point to > # cd / > # rm -rf . When I get into this kind of bad situation, I usually do something slightly less drastic: # pkg_delete -a # find -d /usr/local -type d -exec rmd

Re: Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013, at 11:07, Chris H wrote: > While that all sounds "dreamy". I don't think setting something > like that up on a *half* up(graded|dated) server, should even be > considered. Much less even possible. :( > Oh, it's more than possible. 1) Install poudriere, minimal configuration

Re: Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Chris H
Greetings Patrick, and thank you for the reply. > Le Thu, 1 Aug 2013 08:31:45 -0700 (PDT), > "Chris H" a écrit : > >> Greetings, >> I currently manage several RELENG_8 servers. Recent changes in the >> manner in which base && ports must be managed have resulted in more >> than a fair amount of gr

Re: Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Chris H
Greetings Mark, and thank you for your thoughtful reply. > I can't comment on the perl changes directly, but I can assure you that > if you use port-mgmt/pkg (pkgng) and build your ports into packages via > ports-mgmt/poudriere you will have zero upgrade problems -- a simple > "pkg upgrade" will h

Re: Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Thu, 1 Aug 2013 08:31:45 -0700 (PDT), "Chris H" a écrit : > Greetings, > I currently manage several RELENG_8 servers. Recent changes in the > manner in which base && ports must be managed have resulted in more > than a fair amount of grief. the migration from cv(sup) --> subversion > required

Re: Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Mark Felder
I can't comment on the perl changes directly, but I can assure you that if you use port-mgmt/pkg (pkgng) and build your ports into packages via ports-mgmt/poudriere you will have zero upgrade problems -- a simple "pkg upgrade" will handle the scenario properly. I really haven't tried following UPD

Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Chris H
Greetings, I currently manage several RELENG_8 servers. Recent changes in the manner in which base && ports must be managed have resulted in more than a fair amount of grief. the migration from cv(sup) --> subversion required re-working long standing, carefully crafted management procedures to be