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From: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com>
To: Abu Khaled <khaled.abu@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: portmanager and perl threaded
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[snippage by Mike]
> >
> > Abu, I tried adding lang/perl5.8|WITH_THREADS=yes| to my pm-020.conf
> > and now I have /var/db/pkg/perl-threaded-5.8.7, this causes every port
> > that depends on perl to be rebuilt, that is normal and desirable.  I've
> > let portmanager run after adding WITH_THREADS=yes and everything is
> > working good, I recommend you do the same.  If you set perl to be ignored
> > no port that depends on perl will ever be upgraded, you won't be happy
> > with that most likely.
> >
> > My opinon is that you "fixing the dependencies" by running pkgdb -F may
> > cause you problems, what your doing is forcing ports that were compiled
> > with non threaded perl to work with threaded perl, you really should let
> > portmanager run its course and properly update the ports affected by the
> > threaded perl option.
> >
> > -Mike
>
> After allowing 'portmanager' to rebuild everything depending on 'perl'
> the problem was solved.
> I have been using 'portupgrade' for some time and wanted to solve
> things by taking a shortcut. This time it led me into a maze.
> Thanks again for showing me the way out.

Your very welcome!

-Mike