Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 09:20:18 +0200 From: Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl 5.8 -> 5.10 On Current Production System Message-ID: <201003050920.18988.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <4B8FEA40.9040203@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4B8FDA6A.9090308@tundraware.com> <4B8FE844.6060804@tundraware.com> <4B8FEA40.9040203@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Thursday 04 March 2010 19:13:36 Matthew Seaman wrote: > You got bitten by an ill-considered change introduced after the UPDATING > instructions were written. To work around it, you need to set > DISABLE_CONFLICTS when rebuilding the port, eg like this: > > # portupgrade -m DISABLE_CONFLICTS=yes -o lang/perl5.10 -f perl-5.8\.* > > Please feel free to complain volubly about this: it's hand-holding for > newbies which annoys and incoveniences the vastly larger number of > non-newbies (ie. anyone who has been using the ports for more than a few > weeks.) Has this absolutely ludicrous change not been reverted with extreme prejudice yet? And is there a PR where we can add interesting suggestions as to what miseries should be inflicted on the person responsible for it?
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