portmaster packages and perl upgrade

[Douglas Berry]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:45:18 PDT, Doug Barton wrote:
> soooooo ... is the blob that gets added to make.conf after you
> install  ports-mgmt/portconf in both make.conf files? 

Yes.

> I'm thinking that packages/Latest/perl is stale. Can  you check it?
> If it is stale, updating it should do the trick. If it's not, then
> there  is more debugging to do. 

Thank you for that!  After changing from...
/usr/ports/packages/Latest/perl.tbz -> ../All/perl-5.10.1_2.tbz
to...
/usr/ports/packages/Latest/perl.tbz -> ../All/perl-5.12.1.tbz
all works fine.  I presume this is due to...

~/ports> grep LATEST lang/perl5.*/Makefile
lang/perl5.10/Makefile:LATEST_LINK=     perl
lang/perl5.12/Makefile:NO_LATEST_LINK=  yes
lang/perl5.8/Makefile:NO_LATEST_LINK=   yes

Thanks very much for portmaster!

cheers,
doug