Perl upgrade problem...

[Peter Harrison]

Friday, 12 February 2010 at 14:50:56 -0600, Adam Vande More said:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Peter Harrison
> <peter.piggybox at virgin.net>wrote:
> 
> > Up till now I've kept Perl on my machine at 5.8.9. I now see from UPDATING
> > that upgrading to 5.10 is recommended.
> >
> > However, when I follow the instructions, I get the following error:
> >
> > laptop# portupgrade -o lang/perl5.10 -f perl-5.8.9_3
> >
> 
> if you're referring to this:
> 
> 20090911:
>   AFFECTS: users of lang/perl5.10
>   AUTHOR: skv at FreeBSD.org
> 
>   lang/perl5.10 has been updated to 5.10.1.  You should update everything
>   that depends on perl.  The easiest way to do that is to use
>   "perl-after-upgrade" script supplied with lang/perl5.10.  Please see its
>   manual page for details.
> 
>   If you want switch to lang/perl5.10 from lang/perl5.8 please follow
>   instructions in the entry 20090328 in this file.
> 
> Then you have misunderstood what it's saying.  That only applies to folks
> already running 5.10 and if you have no need for that then do nothing
> further.  If you really believe you need to run 5.10 then you should follow
> the complete instructions from the entry.

I don't need 5.10, but I was prompted to think about upgrading from 20100205.

I was trying to follow 20090328, I ran

pkgdb -Ff (no problem)
then
portupgrade -o lang/per5.10 -f perl-5.8.9

which generated the error given.


Peter Harrison.


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> Adam Vande More