Re: portupgrade, recommended by 7 release notes, breaks perl

2008-03-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
Steven Hartland wrote: Would fix this particular package but again: how many others do this? Maybe this is something that BSDPAN could / should override? It might be possible, you should talk to the BSDPAN maintainer. Kris ___

Re: portupgrade, recommended by 7 release notes, breaks perl

2008-03-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
Steven Hartland wrote: Seems portupgrade can easily break the perl install. How? Well there are various modules which can be updated but are also part of the base perl and are hence required. A good example of this is ExtUtils::MakeMaker. If you uninstall any version of this port your done

Re: portupgrade, recommended by 7 release notes, breaks perl

2008-03-01 Thread James
On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 14:53 +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote: Steven Hartland wrote: Seems portupgrade can easily break the perl install. How? Well there are various modules which can be updated but are also part of the base perl and are hence required. A good example of this is

Re: portupgrade, recommended by 7 release notes, breaks perl

2008-03-01 Thread Stephen Hurd
Kris Kennaway wrote: I think something is not quite right in your analysis, because perl does not depend on any external perl modules (it cannot, by definition). I ran into something like this when I was switching from a threaded perl to an unthreaded perl. It wasn't possible to just use a

Re: portupgrade, recommended by 7 release notes, breaks perl

2008-03-01 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think something is not quite right in your analysis, because perl does not depend on any external perl modules (it cannot, by definition). I know what your saying there Kris, this shouldn't happen. So I've spent some time

portupgrade, recommended by 7 release notes, breaks perl

2008-02-29 Thread Steven Hartland
Seems portupgrade can easily break the perl install. How? Well there are various modules which can be updated but are also part of the base perl and are hence required. A good example of this is ExtUtils::MakeMaker. If you uninstall any version of this port your done for, as trying to build it