Trouble Upgrading Ports

[Jeff Cross]

Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 05:41:59PM +0000, Spadge wrote:
>   
>> Eric Schuele wrote:
>>     
>>> Jeff Cross wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I have been upgrading my ports using portupgrade -varR but have run
>>>> across a few that are giving me fits.
>>>>
>>>> When trying to update scrollkeeper I get the following:
>>>>
>>>> You must have XML::Parser installed to run ../../intltool-merge
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> I ran into this.  I did a `make deinstall` and `make reinstall` on 
>>> p5-XML-Parser.  it did the trick.
>>>
>>> But Now I have other problems see "Trouble building gnomeprint".  I do 
>>> not know if they are related in any way.
>>>       
>> I found that with the recent update of perl5, an awful lot of perl5's 
>> little wizards are failing to portupgrade as the system tries to install 
>> them as dependancies even though (or because) they are already installed.
>>
>> I once wrote a shell script to combat this sort of behaviour, as it is 
>> something I have run up against time and time again with the perl5 port. 
>> It looks something like this (I fully expect my email to kill the 
>> formatting of this, with like linewrap and everything, so beware):
>>     
>
> Did you read ports/UPDATING recomendation about how to update
> perl dependencies ?
>
> 20060220:
>   AFFECTS: users of lang/perl5.8
>   AUTHOR: tobez at FreeBSD.org
>
>   lang/perl5.8 has been updated to 5.8.8.  You should update everything
>   depending on perl.  The easiest way to do that is to use
>   perl-after-upgrade script supplied with lang/perl5.8.  Please see
>   its manual page for details.
>
> -Kirill
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I did not refer to the UPDATING text before upgrading.  Thank you for
pointing me in the right direction.  I will research the
perl-after-upgrade script and will definitely refer to this file
(UPDATING) in the future.

Thank you for the responses.

Jeff Cross