Re: Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Mark Felder
I can't comment on the perl changes directly, but I can assure you that if you use port-mgmt/pkg (pkgng) and build your ports into packages via ports-mgmt/poudriere you will have zero upgrade problems -- a simple pkg upgrade will handle the scenario properly. I really haven't tried following

Re: Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Thu, 1 Aug 2013 08:31:45 -0700 (PDT), Chris H bsd-li...@1command.com a écrit : Greetings, I currently manage several RELENG_8 servers. Recent changes in the manner in which base ports must be managed have resulted in more than a fair amount of grief. the migration from cv(sup) --

Re: Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Chris H
Greetings Mark, and thank you for your thoughtful reply. I can't comment on the perl changes directly, but I can assure you that if you use port-mgmt/pkg (pkgng) and build your ports into packages via ports-mgmt/poudriere you will have zero upgrade problems -- a simple pkg upgrade will handle

Re: Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Chris H
Greetings Patrick, and thank you for the reply. Le Thu, 1 Aug 2013 08:31:45 -0700 (PDT), Chris H bsd-li...@1command.com a écrit : Greetings, I currently manage several RELENG_8 servers. Recent changes in the manner in which base ports must be managed have resulted in more than a fair

Re: Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013, at 11:07, Chris H wrote: While that all sounds dreamy. I don't think setting something like that up on a *half* up(graded|dated) server, should even be considered. Much less even possible. :( Oh, it's more than possible. 1) Install poudriere, minimal configuration if

Re: Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 08/01/2013 10:31 AM, Chris H wrote: So, in the end; why did Perl have to be relocated? Is my only recourse at this point to # cd / # rm -rf . When I get into this kind of bad situation, I usually do something slightly less drastic: # pkg_delete -a # find -d /usr/local -type d -exec rmdir

Re: Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Chris H
Greetings Mark, and thank you kindly for your extremely thoughtful, and informative reply. On Thu, Aug 1, 2013, at 11:07, Chris H wrote: While that all sounds dreamy. I don't think setting something like that up on a *half* up(graded|dated) server, should even be considered. Much less even

Re: Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread J David
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith step...@missouri.edu wrote: When I get into this kind of bad situation, I usually do something slightly less drastic: # pkg_delete -a This is similar to what we do. However, we add the following step: pkg info -qoa | sort

Re: Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Chris H
Greetings Stephen, and thank you for your thoughtful reply. On 08/01/2013 10:31 AM, Chris H wrote: So, in the end; why did Perl have to be relocated? Is my only recourse at this point to # cd / # rm -rf . When I get into this kind of bad situation, I usually do something slightly less

Re: Please remove Perl from ports

2013-08-01 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Thu, 1 Aug 2013 11:32:47 -0700 (PDT) schrieb Chris H bsd-li...@1command.com: Greetings Stephen, and thank you for your thoughtful reply. On 08/01/2013 10:31 AM, Chris H wrote: So, in the end; why did Perl have to be relocated? Is my only recourse at this point to # cd / # rm -rf .