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From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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Please wrap you lines around 72 chars ... I've fixed the formatting this
time.

Ryan <bw2003@shaw.ca> wrote:

> Needing some help here,
> 
> I'm experincing compatibility issues with Perl and trying
> to reinstall ports/src but Sysinstall has tryed alot of ftp mirrors even
> the main one and it says "Warning: Can't find the `4.0-STABLE`
> distribution on this FTP server.

That's because there is no 4.0-STABLE distribution.

> I cant download anything under Distribtutions in Sysinstall. Is this
> a unrelated issue or is there more to this then i know of.. I went to
> 4.0-Stable, cause its the latest 4.X branch distro.
> 
> Perl: What ever i do, perl5.8/perl5 always builds as a incomplete
> broken distro with one test failing with Taint.. No idea what it is,
> but planing on reading it source code.

When you use sysinstall, got to configure, then options, and set the
"Release Nmae" to 4.10-RELEASE.  Packages are only built for releases,
not the -STABLE branch.  4.10-STABLE is similar enough to 4.10-RELEASE
that the packages should work.  If they don't, install from ports
instead of packages.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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