Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 22:11:58 +0100 From: "Richard Kaestner" <richard.kaestner@ycn.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <ttop13@attbi.com> Subject: RE: upgrading perl 5.005 to 5.6.1 Message-ID: <C1F8152FC5A1D31196510000B4301486030FE1@saturn> In-Reply-To: <C1F8152FC5A1D31196510000B4301486054EBF@saturn>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
I just installed the port without troubles. But see Roman's message - seems your ports tree is not up-to-date -- ciao - Richard "you have moved your mouse, please reboot to make this change take effect" Richard Kastner Woerthgasse 17 2500 Baden mailto:richard.kaestner@ycn.com Austria > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of > Roman Neuhauser > Sent: Freitag, 04. Janner 2002 21:51 > To: freebsd > Subject: Re: upgrading perl 5.005 to 5.6.1 > > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?C1F8152FC5A1D31196510000B4301486030FE1>