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Subject: RE: upgrading perl 5.005 to 5.6.1 
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 20:20:34 +0000
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In my freshly installed 4.4-Release, the 
file /usr/ports/lang/perl5/pkg-descr says "This port is 
marked FORBIDDEN as it conflics[sic] badly with the 
Perl5 that is in the 'base' system.  

If I mirror the directory 
ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-
current/ports/lang/perl5 to my /usr/ports/lang/perl5 
directory (after removing the original files) and then 
try "make", I get (oddly) the error "perl-5.005.tar.gz 
is not in /usr/ports/lang/perl5/distinfo."  (even though 
this distinfo is from the newly downloaded port and 
distinfo doesn't mention that filename).

I'm probably doing some obvious thing wrong, but I can't 
seem to figure that out.
> >>>>> "RK" == Richard Kaestner 
<richard.kaestner@ycn.com> writes:
> 
> RK> I am not sure, but isn't there a note NOT to 
upgrade perl ?????
> 
> Not any more. :-)
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