BSD 5.0 Perl question

[Gavin Davenport]

Thanks Sam,

I have a number of
 # -- use.perl generated deltas -- #
# Created: Sat Nov  9 19:46:10 2002
# Setting to use base perl from ports:
PERL_VER=5.6.1
PERL_VERSION=5.6.1
type lines in my /etc/make.conf as I've tried deinstalling, cleaning and
reinstalling a good number of times.

The latest (at the bottom) is:
# -- use.perl generated deltas -- #
# Created: Fri Jun 20 09:05:58 2003
# Setting to use base perl from ports:
PERL_VER=5.8.0
PERL_VERSION=5.8.0
PERL_ARCH=mach
NOPERL=yo
NO_PERL=yo
As required (I think)

It just seems to have a number of unpleasant knock on effects when you
rebuild the perl install, things like my postfix and pflogsumm are whining
about not finding objects in /usr/local/lib/perl/site_perl/5.6.1 and so on.
I think I picked the wrong version in the first place and have built apps
around that install, which I've gone and broken by ripping out Perl and
putting it back in again.

....
/usr/ports/net/cvsup & /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade
......
Cool - I'll have a look at these. I'm hoping these can help me untangle some
of these dependencies.

Cheers :)

Gavs

--- Gavin Davenport <gavdav at gavdav.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi there (first question to the list)
>
> I'm having a bit of trouble handling perl and its
> relationship with other
> packages.
>
> I've discovered you can run make clean in /usr/ports
> which cleans the entire
> collection. Nice :)
>
> However, I'm really confused about what (if any)
> perl gets installed when
> you install the OS (FreeBSD 5.0) (I'm sure one
> does), and then the fact that
> most of the packages seem to include perl 5.6.1
> rather than my preferred
> perl 5.8.0.
>
> When I run make clean I'm getting loads of this type
> of thing:
> ===> astro/stars
> ===>  Cleaning for libiconv-1.8_2
> ===>  Cleaning for gettext-0.11.5_1
> ===>  Cleaning for gmake-3.80
> ===>  Cleaning for imake-4.2.0_1
> ===>  Cleaning for libtool-1.3.4_4
> ===>  Cleaning for perl-5.6.1_11
> ===>  Cleaning for freetype2-2.1.2_1
> ===>  Cleaning for expat-1.95.5
> ===>  Cleaning for XFree86-libraries-4.2.1_5
> ===>  Cleaning for stars-1.0
>
> Suggesting its cleaning all packages its dependent
> on too.
>
> I _think_ I've pkg_deinstalled perl 5.6.1, and
> 'made' perl 5.8.0.4 from the
> ports collection. This gives me a problem with
> MIME::Parser and IO::File so
> have to pkg_add -f
>
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-stable/All/perl-5.8.0_
> 6.tgz
> over the top (yuck) which fixes the problems.
>
> How do I get my ports tree to go looking for
> dependencies with perl 5.8.0 ??
>
> I want to re-compile postfix - I think I'd better
> understand how to maintain
> the ports tree first.
>
> How do I go and grab all the latest ports info
> (Makefiles,distinfo,etc..)
> for the latest ports collection ??
>
> Gavin.
>
>
>
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