forcing ports to use Perl 5.8.8
rihad
rihad at mail.ru
Thu Nov 5 10:19:33 UTC 2009
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> rihad wrote:
>> rihad wrote:
>>> Matthew Seaman wrote:
>
>>>> Basically, just don't upgrade perl. The various perl modules will
>>>> adapt to
>>>> whatever version is installed. If you use portupgrade(1) et al, add
>>>> 'perl-*' to the HOLD_PKGS array in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf. If
>>>> you use portmaster(1), create a file
>>>> +IGNOREME in /var/db/pkg/perl-5.8.8/
>
>> Yes, I'm using portmaster. Should /var/db/pkg/perl-5.8.8_1/+IGNOREME
>> be an empty file?
>
> Yes.
>
>> portmaster manual says:
>> /var/db/pkg/*/+IGNOREME
>> If this file exists, several things will happen:
>>
>> 1. The port will be ignored for all purposes, including
>> dependency updates, if there is no directory for it in
>> /usr/ports, and there is no entry for it in
>> /usr/ports/MOVED.
>>
Now I understand it: the items separated by comma are ANDed together, so
it finally makes sense ;-)
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