Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 21:51:00 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: upgrading perl 5.005 to 5.6.1 Message-ID: <20020104215100.G38258@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <20020104202036.PQCZ20119.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@rwcrwbc55> References: <20020104202036.PQCZ20119.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@rwcrwbc55>
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> From: ttop13@attbi.com
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd)
> Subject: RE: upgrading perl 5.005 to 5.6.1
> Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 20:20:34 +0000
>
> 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.
roman@roman ports/lang/perl5 > cat pkg-descr
Perl is a language that combines some of the features of C, sed,
awk and shell. See the manual page for more hype. There are also
many published by O'Reilly & Assoc. See pod/perlbook.pod for more
information.
- MarkM
> 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.
Seems so. Erm, why don't you just update your ports tree?
Configure cvsup, frob a know in /etc/make.conf, and then you can
just
> cd /usr/ports && make update
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