On Mar 14, 2012, at 2:41 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Mar 14, 2012, at 12:05, Terry Barnum wrote: > >> I tried to upgrade pflogsumm but it failed: >> >> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: >> /opt/local/bin/corelist is being used by the active perl5.8 port. Please >> deactivate this port first, or use 'port -f activate p5.12-module-corelist' >> to force the activation. >> Log for p5.12-module-corelist is at: >> /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_perl_p5-module-corelist/p5.12-module-corelist/main.log >> Error: Problem while installing p5.12-module-corelist >> >> Running a 'port dependents perl5.8' shows: >> perl5 depends on perl5.8 >> rsnapshot depends on perl5.8 >> >> Sorry if this is a basic macports question, but won't deactivating perl5.8 >> break perl5 and rsnapshot? >> >> OSX 10.6.4, i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5664) > > > Looks like you haven't updated your ports in over a year; this is a very old > problem by now. You need to upgrade perl5.8 first. Then you can upgrade your > other ports. > > sudo port upgrade perl5.8 > sudo port upgrade outdated > > In the future you may wish to upgrade your ports more frequently. We try to > leave upgrade paths in place, but typically remove them after a year, so you > should upgrade more frequently than once a year. > > (This particular problem, however, never had a nice upgrade path: you always > had to know to upgrade perl5.8 first manually.)
Thanks Ryan and Lawrence. Point taken about more frequent upgrades. The machine in question is a production server so I tend to be hesitant about updates because I don't want to break it. -Terry Terry Barnum digital OutPost http://www.dop.com _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
