Re: [gentoo-user] world upgrade a mess, need some advise

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

John Covici wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Jul 2024 19:16:11 -0400,
> Wol wrote:
>> On 01/07/2024 20:27, John Covici wrote:
>>>> I seem to recall having to run that during that upgrade as well.  It
>>>> reinstalled a lot of packages but it worked.  It's worth trying for sure.
>>>>
>>> But don't you do that after the upgrade -- I can't even start the
>>> upgrade, so how would perl-cleaner help?
>> Trust me it does!
>>
>> You have a bunch of old perl scripts, one (or more) of which are
>> blocking the upgrade. perl-cleaner will upgrade them to the
>> latest version compatible with your current perl, which then
>> frees up the perl upgrade. Make sure you run perl-cleaner again
>> afterwards, to ensure you have the absolute latest version of all
>> these extra bits. In fact, you should really run perl-cleaner
>> after every "emerge --update". Most people most of the time
>> either forget or don't realise ...
>>
>> Don't forget, if I've got it right, perl and CPAN predate linux,
>> so if there's an argument about who needs to change, perl simply
>> says "I was here first, you have to do it *my* way".
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Wol
>>
> I ran perl-cleaner and it is going right now -- installing perl itself
> and lots of others -- thanks a lot people.
>


Just some additional info.  I did a update on my main rig the other
day.  According to emerge, everything is just fine.  I ran perl-cleaner
with pretend, it is wanting to emerge some 200 packages.  Looks like Wol
is right.  We need to run this after each OS update.  Maybe this should
be documented in a wiki somewhere???

Dale

:-)  :-) 

P. S. Monitor left Memphis hub.  Should arrive today.  I hope.