Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 15:11:40 -0600 From: Jeff Cross <jeff.cross@averageadmins.com> To: Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.bawue.com> Cc: Spadge <spadge@fromley.net>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> Subject: Re: Trouble Upgrading Ports Message-ID: <4400C80C.7030308@averageadmins.com> In-Reply-To: <20060225174516.GE766@voodoo.bawue.com> References: <44008ED7.6050406@averageadmins.com> <4400917C.4010808@computer.org> <440096E7.1000806@fromley.net> <20060225174516.GE766@voodoo.bawue.com>
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Kirill Ponomarew wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 05:41:59PM +0000, Spadge wrote: > >> Eric Schuele wrote: >> >>> Jeff Cross wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I have been upgrading my ports using portupgrade -varR but have run >>>> across a few that are giving me fits. >>>> >>>> When trying to update scrollkeeper I get the following: >>>> >>>> You must have XML::Parser installed to run ../../intltool-merge >>>> >>>> >>> I ran into this. I did a `make deinstall` and `make reinstall` on >>> p5-XML-Parser. it did the trick. >>> >>> But Now I have other problems see "Trouble building gnomeprint". I do >>> not know if they are related in any way. >>> >> I found that with the recent update of perl5, an awful lot of perl5's >> little wizards are failing to portupgrade as the system tries to install >> them as dependancies even though (or because) they are already installed. >> >> I once wrote a shell script to combat this sort of behaviour, as it is >> something I have run up against time and time again with the perl5 port. >> It looks something like this (I fully expect my email to kill the >> formatting of this, with like linewrap and everything, so beware): >> > > Did you read ports/UPDATING recomendation about how to update > perl dependencies ? > > 20060220: > AFFECTS: users of lang/perl5.8 > AUTHOR: tobez@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. > > -Kirill > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > I did not refer to the UPDATING text before upgrading. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. I will research the perl-after-upgrade script and will definitely refer to this file (UPDATING) in the future. Thank you for the responses. Jeff Cross
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