ports/69097: portupgrade's portsdb can't run without Perl, but doesn't install it under FreeBSD 5.x.

[James Snow]

>Number:         69097
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       portupgrade's portsdb can't run without Perl, but doesn't install it under FreeBSD 5.x.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jul 15 13:20:20 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     James Snow
>Release:        5.2.1-p9
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD laptop.teardrop.org 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 #1: Thu Jul 15 01:12:40 EDT 2004     root at laptop.teardrop.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LAPTOP  i38
>Description:
The 'portsdb' part of 'portupgrade' requires Perl (in a roundabout way) but the portupgrade port doesn't install it.
>How-To-Repeat:
On a freshly installed system, cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade && make install && rehash && portsdb -Uu

Or, move all instances of Perl out of your path and run portsdb:

laptop# portsdb -Uu
Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..perl: not found
===> arabic/ae_fonts_mono failed
*** Error code 1
perl: not found
===> accessibility/at-spi failed
*** Error code 1
2 errors

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*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports.
failed to generate INDEX!
portsdb: index generation error

>Fix:
cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5 && make install

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