Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:45:16 +0100 From: Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.bawue.com> To: Spadge <spadge@fromley.net> Cc: Jeff Cross <jeff.cross@averageadmins.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> Subject: Re: Trouble Upgrading Ports Message-ID: <20060225174516.GE766@voodoo.bawue.com> In-Reply-To: <440096E7.1000806@fromley.net> References: <44008ED7.6050406@averageadmins.com> <4400917C.4010808@computer.org> <440096E7.1000806@fromley.net>
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On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 05:41:59PM +0000, Spadge wrote: > Eric Schuele wrote: > >Jeff Cross wrote: > > > >>I have been upgrading my ports using portupgrade -varR but have run > >>across a few that are giving me fits. > >> > >>When trying to update scrollkeeper I get the following: > >> > >>You must have XML::Parser installed to run ../../intltool-merge > >> > > > >I ran into this. I did a `make deinstall` and `make reinstall` on > >p5-XML-Parser. it did the trick. > > > >But Now I have other problems see "Trouble building gnomeprint". I do > >not know if they are related in any way. > > I found that with the recent update of perl5, an awful lot of perl5's > little wizards are failing to portupgrade as the system tries to install > them as dependancies even though (or because) they are already installed. > > I once wrote a shell script to combat this sort of behaviour, as it is > something I have run up against time and time again with the perl5 port. > It looks something like this (I fully expect my email to kill the > formatting of this, with like linewrap and everything, so beware): Did you read ports/UPDATING recomendation about how to update perl dependencies ? 20060220: AFFECTS: users of lang/perl5.8 AUTHOR: tobez@FreeBSD.org lang/perl5.8 has been updated to 5.8.8. You should update everything depending on perl. The easiest way to do that is to use perl-after-upgrade script supplied with lang/perl5.8. Please see its manual page for details. -Kirill
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