From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 4 12:41:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.cz (diana.mobil.cz [195.39.16.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19EFE37B419 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 12:41:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from ester.mobil.cz (ester.mobil.cz [194.213.62.23]) by mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g04Kfi103270 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 21:41:45 +0100 Received: from roman.mobil.cz ([10.2.0.89]) by ester.mobil.cz (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.7) with ESMTP id 2002010421395013:4421 ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 21:39:50 +0100 Received: (from roman@localhost) by roman.mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g04Kp0Y89618 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 21:51:00 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from neuhauser@mobil.cz) X-Authentication-Warning: roman.mobil.cz: roman set sender to neuhauser@mobil.cz using -f Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 21:51:00 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: freebsd Subject: Re: upgrading perl 5.005 to 5.6.1 Message-ID: <20020104215100.G38258@roman.mobil.cz> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd References: <20020104202036.PQCZ20119.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@rwcrwbc55> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020104202036.PQCZ20119.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@rwcrwbc55> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 01/04/2002 09:39:50 PM, Serialize by Router on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 01/04/2002 09:39:56 PM, Serialize complete at 01/04/2002 09:39:56 PM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 -- FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE 9:48PM up 9 days, 8:26, 17 users, load averages: 0.13, 0.05, 0.03 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message