Problems upgrading p5-IO-Compress
Frank Shute
frank at shute.org.uk
Sun Sep 26 17:27:03 UTC 2010
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 09:44:06AM -0700, Ron wrote:
>
> I went to upgrade my ports this morning and saw this:
>
> p5-Compress-Zlib-2.015 < needs updating (port has 2.030) (=> 'archivers/p5-IO-Compress')
> p5-IO-Compress-Base-2.015 < needs updating (port has 2.030) (=> 'archivers/p5-IO-Compress')
> p5-IO-Compress-Bzip2-2.015 < needs updating (port has 2.030) (=> 'archivers/p5-IO-Compress')
> p5-IO-Compress-Zlib-2.015_1 < needs updating (port has 2.030) (=> 'archivers/p5-IO-Compress')
>
> After reading CHANGES and UPDATING I did a portupgrade p5-* since there were no specific instructions and I get this:
>
> ===> Checking if archivers/p5-IO-Compress already installed
> ===> An older version of archivers/p5-IO-Compress is already installed (p5-Compress-Zlib-2.015)
> You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again
> by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly.
> If you really wish to overwrite the old port of archivers/p5-IO-Compress
> without deleting it first, set the variable "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER"
> in your environment or the "make install" command line.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/archivers/p5-IO-Compress.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/archivers/p5-IO-Zlib.
> ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade20100926-29184-lhtw7y-0 env UPGRADE_TOOL=portupgrade UPGRADE_PORT=p5-IO-Zlib-1.10 UPGRADE_PORT_VER=1.10 make
> ** Fix the problem and try again.
> ---> Skipping 'archivers/p5-Archive-Tar' (p5-Archive-Tar-1.68) because a requisite package 'p5-IO-Zlib-1.10' (archivers/p5-IO-Zlib) failed (specify -k to force)
> ** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
> ! archivers/p5-IO-Zlib (p5-IO-Zlib-1.10) (unknown build error)
> * archivers/p5-Archive-Tar (p5-Archive-Tar-1.68)
>
> If I try and run pkg_delete p5-IO-Compress-Zlib-2.015_1 it won't let me because the package is in use.
>
> How do I upgrade? Did I miss some obvious instructions? All UPDATING says is:
>
> 20100921:
> AFFECTS: users of p5-Compress-Zlib, p5-IO-Compress-*
> AUTHOR: mm at FreeBSD.org
>
> The p5-Compress-Zlib, p5-IO-Compress-Base, p5-IO-Compress-Zlib and
> p5-IO-Compress-Bzip2 ports have been replaced by p5-IO-Compress.
> Users of Perl 5.10 and higher do not need to install this module
> because it is already included in the standard perl distribution.
>
> I tried following the instructions above about running make deinstall and now I get:
>
> [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 238 packages found (-1 +0) (...) done]
> Stale dependency: p5-Archive-Tar-1.68 --> p5-IO-Zlib-1.10 -- manually run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force.
>
> I've tried running pkgdb -F, but it is just asking my a lot of questions like:
>
> Duplicated origin: archivers/p5-IO-Compress - p5-Compress-Zlib-2.015 p5-IO-Compress-Base-2.015 p5-IO-Compress-Bzip2-2.015 p5-IO-Compress-Zlib-2.015_1
> Unregister any of them? [no]
The answer is to run pgdb -F and unregister:
p5-Compress-Zlib
p5-IO-Compress-Base
p5-IO-Compress-Bzip2
p5-IO-Compress-Zlib
and you should be in the clear.
>
> and I have no idea what the right answer is.
>
> I am running perl 5.8.9 and Freebsd 7.1
>
> Any help is appreciated since I am completely lost. I've been freebsd for many years on my personal server but never encountered a mess like this before.
>
> Ron
>
Regards,
--
Frank
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