On 8 Apr 2012, at 06:51, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Apr 7, 2012, at 05:48, Barrie Stott wrote: > >> 'port outgraded' showed that p5-app-ack and p5.14-app-ack (but no other >> *-app-ack) needed to be upgraded and p5.14-app-ack did so without a hitch. >> >> The ports I have of the form p5* are: >> p5-app-ack @1.940.0_2 (active) >> p5.12-file-next @1.20.0_2 >> p5.12-locale-gettext @1.50.0_6+universal (active) >> p5.14-app-ack @1.940.0_2 >> p5.14-app-ack @1.960.0_0 (active) >> p5.14-file-next @1.20.0_2 (active) >> >> 'port info p5-app-ack' shows the following where the line of particular >> interest is 'Replaced by: p5.14-app-ack' >> p5-app-ack @1.960.0 (perl) >> Replaced by: p5.14-app-ack >> Sub-ports: p5.8-app-ack, p5.10-app-ack, p5.12-app-ack, >> p5.14-app-ack >> >> Description: ack is a tool like grep, aimed at programmers with >> large trees of heterogeneous >> source code. >> Homepage: http://betterthangrep.com/ >> >> Library Dependencies: p5.14-app-ack >> Platforms: darwin >> License: unknown >> Maintainers: [email protected], [email protected] > > All ports named beginning with "p5-" are "stub" ports. They don't install > anything; there's no point in installing any of them. Install the port > designed for the specific version of perl you want to use, e.g. p5.12-app-ack > or p5.14-app-ack.
I have now removed p5-app-ack. > In theory, all the version-specific ports should be able to coexist with one > another. In practice, they don't, as you're seeing: > > >> ---> Activating p5.12-file-next @1.20.0_2 >> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: >> /opt/local/share/man/man3/File::Next.3pm.gz is being used by the active >> p5.14- file-next port. Please deactivate this port first, or use 'port -f >> activate p5.12- file-next' to force the activation. > > Dan Ports wrote a message to the mailing list about this in February, > suggesting that we should stop pretending to support multiple simultaneous > perl versions when it's obviously not working: > > http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2012-February/017727.html > > No decision was reached but I support the idea of offering only a single > version of perl, 5.14, in MacPorts. I've decided to do the same. Someday the default of 5.12 will change and I suspect that I would in for lots of change then so I may as well move to 5.14 now. I've had much of the day on this and no serious problem has cropped up so I thought I would reply to your email and thank you for taking the time to help; it's much appreciated. Barrie. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
