On August 3, 2003 11:05 pm, Stephen Turner wrote: > hey im having trouble, ive been rsyncing for 3-4 days now and still come > up with a bad perl package which seems to stop me from updating, :( ive > run this box for quite some time so not sure if that matters anyways i > attatched the output if you need one where i also try to emerge -U let me > know, thanks for any help you can give! great distro!
The solution is simply to remove the blocking packages:
$ emerge -C dev-perl/File-Spec dev-perl/Test-Simple
And then install the new Perl:
$ emerge -u perl
The files will be replaced with the files from the core Perl distribution.
HTH,
Brian
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