portmaster packages and perl upgrade

[Doug Barton]

On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Douglas Berry wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:45:18 PDT, Doug Barton wrote:
>> soooooo ... is the blob that gets added to make.conf after you
>> install  ports-mgmt/portconf in both make.conf files?
>
> Yes.
>
>> I'm thinking that packages/Latest/perl is stale. Can  you check it?
>> If it is stale, updating it should do the trick. If it's not, then
>> there  is more debugging to do.
>
> Thank you for that!  After changing from...
> /usr/ports/packages/Latest/perl.tbz -> ../All/perl-5.10.1_2.tbz
> to...
> /usr/ports/packages/Latest/perl.tbz -> ../All/perl-5.12.1.tbz
> all works fine.

Ok, that's good news! :)

> I presume this is due to...
>
> ~/ports> grep LATEST lang/perl5.*/Makefile
> lang/perl5.10/Makefile:LATEST_LINK=     perl
> lang/perl5.12/Makefile:NO_LATEST_LINK=  yes
> lang/perl5.8/Makefile:NO_LATEST_LINK=   yes

Yeah, looks like I need to change that logic for local packagedirs a 
bit.

> Thanks very much for portmaster!

You're welcome. :)


Doug

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