Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2020 17:51:09 -0800 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Getting around goofy package dependencies Message-ID: <63076.1577929869@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
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I am having a feeling of deja vu because I'm sure I have been here before. I need to use a package named p5-Net-IDN-Encode on one of my FreeBSD 12.0 systems. I tried to just install it with pkg add but that didn't work becaise I had an older version of perl5 installed and p5-Net-IDN-Encode wanted a newer one. So I installed the latest per5, i.e. "perl5-5.30.0". I figured that should make me golden. Apparently I'm not that lucky, and p5-Net-IDN-Encode appars to want one very specific version of perl5, i.e. perl5-5.28.2, even though I have an even newer one. as a result, now when I try to install the p5-Net-IDN-Encode [ackage, using "pkg install" I get the following helpful notice: ======================================================================= Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... FreeBSD repository is up to date. All repositories are up to date. The following 2 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked): New packages to be INSTALLED: p5-Net-IDN-Encode: 2.500 perl5.28: 5.28.2 Number of packages to be installed: 2 ... ======================================================================= I have tried to get around this by invoking "pkg install" with the -f option, and separately also with the -M option, but neither one made even the slightest bit of diofference. So, two questions: 1) Why do neither the -f nor -M options for "pkg install" do what the corresponding man page seems to say they will do? 2) Why is the package for p5-Net-IDN-Encode configured in a way that causes it to need *only* and *exactly* perl5-5.28.2, and why doesn't the configuration of the and p5-Net-IDN-Encode packahe allow me to install it when have an even newer version fo perl5 installed?
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