From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jan 2 02:50:21 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42A8C1E8A48 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2020 02:50:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfg@tristatelogic.com) Received: from outgoing.tristatelogic.com (segfault.tristatelogic.com [69.62.255.118]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47pCFS4bk6z3CPs for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2020 02:50:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfg@tristatelogic.com) Received: by segfault.tristatelogic.com (Postfix, from userid 1237) id 491AC4E71D; Wed, 1 Jan 2020 18:50:19 -0800 (PST) From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" To: "John Levine" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting around goofy package dependencies In-Reply-To: <20200102024235.6D14511E7720@ary.qy> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <63948.1577933418.1@segfault.tristatelogic.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2020 18:50:19 -0800 Message-ID: <63949.1577933419@segfault.tristatelogic.com> X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 47pCFS4bk6z3CPs X-Spamd-Bar: ----- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of rfg@tristatelogic.com designates 69.62.255.118 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=rfg@tristatelogic.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-5.32 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[tristatelogic.com]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_COUNT_ZERO(0.00)[0]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:14051, ipnet:69.62.128.0/17, country:US]; IP_SCORE(-3.02)[ip: (-7.94), ipnet: 69.62.128.0/17(-3.97), asn: 14051(-3.16), country: US(-0.05)] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 02:50:21 -0000 In message <20200102024235.6D14511E7720@ary.qy>, you wrote: >In article <63076.1577929869@segfault.tristatelogic.com> you write: >>=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >>Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... >>FreeBSD repository is up to date. >>All repositories are up to date. >>The following 2 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked): >> >>New packages to be INSTALLED: >> p5-Net-IDN-Encode: 2.500 >> perl5.28: 5.28.2 >> >>Number of packages to be installed: 2 > >Something strange is going on. On one of my 12.1 systems, which should h= ave t >he same >packages as 12.0, I have the default perl 5.30 and p5-Net-IDN-Encode inst= alls = >and >uninstalls from pkg just fine. > >Do you have other stuff that is downversion from the pkg defaults? It >gets pretty unhappy when you don't have just the versions it expects. > >As a workaround, try installing that perl module from ports and see if >it shows any other unexpected dependencies. I de-installed my perl5 and just left it that way. Then I tried just doing pkg intall on p5-Net-IDN-Encode. Now, guess which version of perl5 the pkg system decided to automagically install along with p5-Net-IDN-Encode. per5-5.30.0 *Something* is really bananas here.