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Date:      Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:49:23 -0600
From:      Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To:        "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how do I tell ports that perl5.8 should never be installed?
Message-ID:  <6201873e1002281349n2bcfd16dte6fdce53cd14c1db@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <86zl2tkrrv.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
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On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Randal L. Schwartz
<merlyn@stonehenge.com>wrote:

>
> I've upgraded to Perl 5.10, but when I tried to install a few
> things that depended on "perl", the package installed perl5.8, because
> that must be what it was compiled with.
>
> How do I tell the ports system that perl5.8 should *never* be used, and
> rather
> than install a package that needs it, I can fall back to a port build?
>
> I'm using portsnap to update things, so I don't think i can just delete the
> 5.8 port, because it will likely just get reinstalled.
>

See /usr/ports/UPDATING and /etc/make.conf

-- 
Adam Vande More



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