Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:02:50 +0400 From: rihad <rihad@mail.ru> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using Perl 5.8.8 Message-ID: <4B5896CA.2030104@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <4B588EED.6080602@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4B587EBE.8040403@mail.ru> <4B588EED.6080602@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman wrote: > rihad wrote: >> Hi, one of the programs I'm using (freeradius' rlm_perl) segfaults >> with both Perl 5.8.9 and 5.10, only working with 5.8.8. How can I >> cleanly install Perl 5.8.8 on a fresh system, without mangling the >> port Makefile? I've tried putting both USE_PERL=5.8.8 and >> PERL_VERSION=5.8.8 in /etc/make.conf, but "make fetch" still tries to >> fetch version 5.8.9. > > portdowngrade is what you'ld have to use. However, perl-5.8.8 has known > security vulnerabilities: > > http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/4a99d61c-f23a-11dd-9f55-0030843d3802.html > > Would definitely be better to get your program to work with a current > version of perl. > Thanks for pointing this out. However, portdowngrade doesn't help me much: # portdowngrade -s:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs lang/perl5.8 portdowngrade 0.6 by Heiner Eichmann Please note, that nothing is changed in the ports tree unless it is explicitly permitted in step 6! Seeking port lang/perl5.8 ... not found #
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