Port update failure -- How do I fix?

[Mark Frank]

* On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 12:20:29PM -0400 Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Tim Hogan wrote:
> >So the bottom line is that I love the ports because I am by no means a 
> >programer.  As long as I can type make install I am good to go.  The 
> >problem is that I just tried to do an upgrade on some ports that were 
> >out of date and I am now getting the error below.  A previous version 
> >was installed but now the new version will not install.  How do I fix 
> >this?  Thanks ahead of time for any help you can provide...
> 
> The odds are that you will need to install /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8 and do a 
> "use.perl port" in order to build many perl modules, since they expect a 
> newer version of perl than what you seem to have.  Look at 
> /usr/ports/CHANGES for more help and suggestions on how to upgrade perl and 
> dependant perl ports in a reasonable fashion.

Just for the record I too am getting the same error when attempting to
update p5-DBD-mysql.  Everything went well with the last perl upgrade
(including the use of the perl-after-upgrade script) and I am using the
5.8 version.

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# perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.7 built for i386-freebsd-64int
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2005, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'.  If you have access to
the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home
Page.

#

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This started when I CVSUPed my ports tree on July 9th and portversion
reported p5-DBD-mysql could be updated.

I'll submit this to freebsd-ports at .

Mark
-- 
"The fix is only temporary...unless it works." - Red Green