Jim C. Nasby wrote:
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 02:47:28PM -0500, Barry Pederson wrote:
>>
Did you perhaps upgrade your Perl earlier? so that perhaps the existing
installed dependant ports are Perl packages for 5.6.1, but you now have
5.6.2 and portupgrade thinks your dependant packages should be for that
- but it can't install them because the older versions for 5.6.1 are in
place.
I did recently go from 5.8 to 5.6. So that means all my perl stuff needs
to re-install? That doesn't really make any sense...
Yeah, that'll do it. A lot of those Perl modules are not pure Perl, and
contain compiled shared libraries (try; find /usr/local/lib/perl5 -name
"*.so").
It's kind of a pain - I'm not at all a Perl fan myself, but have fought
with it just to get SpamAssassin running. Too bad they don't handle it
the way Python modules are handled, where the same port of a Python
module can be installed multiple times for multiple versions of Python.
Anyhow, /usr/ports/UPGRADING talks about upgrading all Perl
dependencies. This page also quotes the same info
http://www.freshports.org/lang/perl5.8
Barry
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