Some Perl Ports broken in 4.x ...

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, David J Brooks wrote:

> On Sunday 16 April 2006 13:22, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> is there something i need to do under FreeBSD 4.x to get this sort of
>> thing to work:
>>
>> ===>   p5-Authen-SASL-2.10_1 depends on package: p5-GSSAPI>0 - not found
>> ===>    Verifying install for p5-GSSAPI>0 in /usr/ports/security/p5-GSSAPI
>> ===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
>>
>> Specifically:
>>
>> BUILD_DEPENDS=  \
>>          p5-Digest-MD5>0:${PORTSDIR}/security/p5-Digest-MD5 \
>>          p5-Digest-HMAC>0:${PORTSDIR}/security/p5-Digest-HMAC \
>>          p5-GSSAPI>0:${PORTSDIR}/security/p5-GSSAPI
>> RUN_DEPENDS=    ${BUILD_DEPENDS}
>>
>> The >0 aspects don't seem to be "4.x compatible" :(
>>
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>> Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
>> Email: scrappy at hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664
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>
>
> Read /usr/ports/UPDATING. Specifically:
>
> 20060220:
>  AFFECTS: users of lang/perl5.8
>  AUTHOR: tobez at FreeBSD.org
>
>  lang/perl5.8 has been updated to 5.8.8.  You should update everything
>  depending on perl.  The easiest way to do that is to use
>  perl-after-upgrade script supplied with lang/perl5.8.  Please see
>  its manual page for details.

Actually, updating perl is something that I do before I install any perl 
modules ... standard operating procedure, been burnt too many times before 
by not doing it ...

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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy at hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664