Problems upgrading p5-IO-Compress

[Frank Shute]

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   p5-IO-Compress-Bzip2 ports have been replaced by p5-IO-Compress.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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