Can I resume the perl upgrade?

[David Southwell]

On Tuesday 14 April 2009 05:20:35 Ruben de Groot wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 12:05:50PM -0700, David Southwell typed:
> > On Saturday 11 April 2009 17:20:56 Chris Rees wrote:
> > > > I hope it is not too far off topic but:
> > > >
> > > > Can anyone tell me how to fix this one:
> > > >
> > > > Stale dependency: bsdpan-Pod-Perldoc-3.15 -> perl-5.8.9_2
> > > > (lang/perl5.8): can't convert nil into string
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > My update to 10 seems to be OK except for this..
> > > >
> > > > I cannot find its origin so do not know what to deinstall and
> > > > reinstall
> > > >
> > > > It would also be great to get all bsdpan into the pkgdb with their
> > > > origins.. is there any way to do that?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance
> > > >
> > > > David
> > >
> > > Perhaps you should start a new thread.
> > >
> > > Chris
> >
> > Tried that last week to no avail
> > So asmy question was vaguely on topic I had hoped someone might be able
> > to contribute something useful!!
>
> If you can send a reply-all to the list, you certainly can send a new
> question, can't you? Hijacking threads *is* considered rude/ignorant/dumb
> by some.
>
> That said, Pod::Perldoc seems to be part of perl-5.8.[8-9] on my systems,
> so unless you're doing some nonstandard things with this package, I suggest
> you just pkg_delete the bsdpan package and get on with it.
>
Hi Ruben

Sorry to get cross with you but it has been clear from your responses that you 
have not actually troubled to read the detail of what I posted. The origibnal 
posting refrred to the issue as being one that came as a result of doing 
something similar to the OP for the thread. There was a second part (relating 
to getting the info on bsdpan into the DB.

a. If you had read carefully you would have found that I have already tried:
posting another thread
b. I had already tried pkg_delete without success.
c. I had tried package_deinstall again without success.
d. I am totally puzzled why bsdpan-Pod_Perldoc should be showing a dependency 
on perl-5.8-9 when I have upgraded to 10. 

I will be very happy "to get on with it" when I know how to achieve that 
nirvana.

In the meantime those who get try to get picky without reading a thread 
carefully do tend to offeset the work of so many people who are friendly and 
helpful

Thanks in advance for positive contributions

david