portmanager and perl threaded

Michael C. Shultz ringworm01 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 29 02:11:10 GMT 2005


On Tuesday 28 June 2005 18:00, Abu Khaled wrote:
> I have a situation here where portmanager treats perl-threaded-5.8.7
> as an old port and tries to update it.
>
> -snip
> have:perl-threaded-5.8.7   status: OLD available:perl-5.8.7   /lang/perl5.8
> -snip
>
> Portmanager almost recompiled my entire ports tree and I was lucky to
> stop it before it uninstalled perl-threaded-5.8.7
> Portupgrade correctly reports that the port is up-to-date but I wanted
> to test portmanager and see how it differs from portupgrade.
> Can someone give me a workaround for this problem? What options do I
> need to add for portmanager configuration aside from IGNORE?

Its covered in the man page. see the -ip option, or the conf file option.

-Mike



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