Upgrades fail on Perl dependency

[Matthew Seaman]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 10:12:30AM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote:
> I keep having problems with various ports. It seems a lot of them are 
> dependent on Perl 5.8.2 -- the dependency is specific, but I haven't been 
> able to figure out where the '5.8.2' is being specified. Here's an example:
> 
> ===>   gtk-1.2.10_12 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.2 - not found
> ===>    Verifying install for /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.2 in 
> /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8
> ===>  Vulnerability check disabled
> ===>  Extracting for perl-5.8.4
> >> Checksum OK for perl-5.8.4.tar.bz2.
> >> Checksum OK for BSDPAN-5.8.4.tar.bz2.
> 
> How can I change the dependency so portupgrade does *not* recompile perl 
> every time? Portupgrade deletes the "old" executable, but when pkg_add 
> finds the entry in the database it refuses to install the executable that 
> has just been compiled. Or something like that. I have about a hundred 
> ports that portupgrade -a just leaves because of this problem.

Run:

    # use.perl port

You need to re-run that every time there is a version number increase
for perl.  Look at the lines added to /etc/make.conf to understand how
this works.

You will also need to re-install any perl ports that install modules
or other files under /usr/local/lib/perl5{/site-perl,}/${PERL_VER}

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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