Port update failure -- How do I fix?

[Tim Hogan]

Thanks for the tip Mark.  I ran cvsup against my ports again, tried to 
install and it Worked!

Tim


Mark Frank wrote:

>* On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 12:20:29PM -0400 Chuck Swiger wrote:
>  
>
>>Tim Hogan wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>So the bottom line is that I love the ports because I am by no means a 
>>>programer.  As long as I can type make install I am good to go.  The 
>>>problem is that I just tried to do an upgrade on some ports that were 
>>>out of date and I am now getting the error below.  A previous version 
>>>was installed but now the new version will not install.  How do I fix 
>>>this?  Thanks ahead of time for any help you can provide...
>>>      
>>>
>>The odds are that you will need to install /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8 and do a 
>>"use.perl port" in order to build many perl modules, since they expect a 
>>newer version of perl than what you seem to have.  Look at 
>>/usr/ports/CHANGES for more help and suggestions on how to upgrade perl and 
>>dependant perl ports in a reasonable fashion.
>>    
>>
>
>Just for the record I too am getting the same error when attempting to
>update p5-DBD-mysql.  Everything went well with the last perl upgrade
>(including the use of the perl-after-upgrade script) and I am using the
>5.8 version.
>
>###################################################################
>
># perl -v
>
>This is perl, v5.8.7 built for i386-freebsd-64int
>(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)
>
>Copyright 1987-2005, Larry Wall
>
>Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
>or the
>GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.
>
>Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
>this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'.  If you have access to
>the
>Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home
>Page.
>
>#
>
>###################################################################
>
>This started when I CVSUPed my ports tree on July 9th and portversion
>reported p5-DBD-mysql could be updated.
>
>I'll submit this to freebsd-ports at .
>
>Mark
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>

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