portmaster goes into a loop

[Matthew Seaman]

On 14/07/2011 09:51, Daniel Braniss wrote:

> ===>>> The dependency for net/p5-Net-HTTP
>        seems to be handled by p5-libwww-5.837

> ===>>> Launching child to update p5-libwww-5.837 to p5-libwww-6.02
>         p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> 
> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> 
> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> 
[...etc..]

> how can I fix this?
> (the loop I kill with ^C :-), it's the going into a loop that I want to fix.

The solution is in /usr/ports/UPDATING

But it boils down to this:

   -- use something other than portmaster to upgrade

or

   -- delete p5-libwww and reinstall with the new version

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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