Problems upgrading p5-IO-Compress

[Ron]

On Sep 26, 2010, at 10:26 AM, Frank Shute wrote:

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  p5-IO-Compress-Bzip2 ports have been replaced by p5-IO-Compress.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

Excellent, this seems to have fixed it!   Thanks!

Ron

> Regards,
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> Frank
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