Re: Installing X11 gives perl version conflict

2011-06-24 Thread Dieter BSD
perryh> running 8.1-RELEASE (and not 8-STABLE) [ ... ] perryh> /packages-8.1-release/ AH HA The .message file contains the solution (I hope): "packages-*-release directories are built from the ports collection shipped with the release, and are not updated thereafter. packages-*-stable and

Re: Installing X11 gives perl version conflict

2011-06-24 Thread perryh
RW wrote: > If building isn't an option then it's better to stick to one > release trees at a time. Unfortunately, it seems that pkg_add(1) does not make that as easy as one might prefer. I discovered recently that, even though I am running 8.1-RELEASE (and not 8-STABLE), "pkg_add -r" fetches f

Re: Installing X11 gives perl version conflict

2011-06-24 Thread doug
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Michael Powell wrote: d...@safeport.com wrote: On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "Dieter" == Dieter BSD writes: Dieter> Attempt to install package xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.2.tbz Dieter> gives conflict between perl-5.10.1_3 and perl-5.12.3 Dieter> even when

Re: Installing X11 gives perl version conflict

2011-06-24 Thread Dieter BSD
RW> The problem as I see it is that he is installing packages that RW> aren't built from the same tree. One of the dependencies of RW> xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.2 was  built when perl 5.10 was the default RW> and one after the default switched to perl 5.12. RW> If building isn't an option then it's bet

Re: Installing X11 gives perl version conflict

2011-06-24 Thread Dieter BSD
Dieter> Attempt to install package xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.2.tbz Dieter> gives conflict between perl-5.10.1_3 and perl-5.12.3 Dieter> even when installing into clean directory tree. Randal> Packages seem like a great idea when you get started, Randal> but they're all built with the default configs, a

Re: Installing X11 gives perl version conflict

2011-06-24 Thread RW
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:20:46 -0400 Michael Powell wrote: > Read /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.perl.mk. I think mostly many of the variables > contained within may be set in /etc/make.conf and can be picked up at > build time by make. Particularly interesting were PERL_VERSION, > PERL_PORT, and USE_PERL, for

Re: Installing X11 gives perl version conflict

2011-06-24 Thread Michael Powell
d...@safeport.com wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > >>> "Dieter" == Dieter BSD writes: >> >> Dieter> Attempt to install package xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.2.tbz >> Dieter> gives conflict between perl-5.10.1_3 and perl-5.12.3 >> Dieter> even when installing into clean direct

Re: Installing X11 gives perl version conflict

2011-06-24 Thread doug
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "Dieter" == Dieter BSD writes: Dieter> Attempt to install package xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.2.tbz Dieter> gives conflict between perl-5.10.1_3 and perl-5.12.3 Dieter> even when installing into clean directory tree. Packages seem like a great idea whe

Re: Installing X11 gives perl version conflict

2011-06-24 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Dieter" == Dieter BSD writes: Dieter> Attempt to install package xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.2.tbz Dieter> gives conflict between perl-5.10.1_3 and perl-5.12.3 Dieter> even when installing into clean directory tree. Packages seem like a great idea when you get started, but they're all built with

Installing X11 gives perl version conflict

2011-06-23 Thread Dieter BSD
FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 Attempting to install X11 server. Attempt to install package xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.2.tbz gives conflict between perl-5.10.1_3 and perl-5.12.3 even when installing into clean directory tree. # mkdir /tmp/test_pkg_install # export PKG_DBDIR=/tmp/test_pkg_install/var/db/pkg # pkg_