Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 06:22:20 -0800 (PST) From: "Scott I. Remick" <scott@sremick.net> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ports + cpan question Message-ID: <20031209142220.57670.qmail@web41110.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20031209120222.L84380@server.gisp.dk>
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--- Michael Sig Birkmose <michael@gisp.dk> wrote: > However lately I have also used Perl CPAN to install some perl modules. > When I get a list of > the packages I need to upgrade (portversion -l \<) these packages also > shows up - why? I recently went through this, and although no expert, here's what I learned: Somehow the portupgrade suite can detect stuff installed via CPAN. They appear prefixed with "bsdpan-". However, because it wasn't installed in the normal manner, portupgrade can't manage upgrades, so they are all marked as "held". Each has an equivalent in the official ports tree... prefixed w/ "p5-" and maybe named a tad different (but close enough that you can figure it out). If you uninstall the CPAN versions and install the p5- versions, this seems to make portupgrade happy. That's all I know. Someone may correct me and/or elaborate. I ran into this w/ f-prot and eventually sorted everything out so I didn't get tons of errors everytime I ran portupgrade. Hope this helps! ===== Scott I. Remick --==-- ICQ: 450152 Save the internet - Use a Mozilla-based browser: http://vtbsd.net/mozilla/ FreeBSD: Because making unix user-friendly is easier than debugging Windows. http://vtbsd.net/freebsd/ "Voici mon secret. Il est tres simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. A: Why is putting a reply at the top of the message frowned upon?
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