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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to upgrade perl
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 21:32:53
Message-Id: 576860F3.2030605@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] how to upgrade perl by lee
1 On 20/06/2016 18:27, lee wrote:
2 >
3 > Hi,
4 >
5 > how do you do an update despite perl blocking it?
6 >
7 >
8 > emerge -a --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y --keep-going @world
9 > [...]
10 > dev-lang/perl:0
11 >
12 > (dev-lang/perl-5.22.2:0/5.22::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
13 > =dev-lang/perl-5.22* required by (virtual/perl-IO-Zlib-1.100.0-r6:0/0::gentoo, installed)
14 > ^ ^^^^^
15 > (and 8 more with the same problem)
16 >
17 > (dev-lang/perl-5.20.2:0/5.20::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
18 > dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by (dev-perl/Encode-Locale-1.30.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed)
19 > ^^^^^^^^
20 > =dev-lang/perl-5.20* required by (virtual/perl-Pod-Parser-1.620.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
21 > ^ ^^^^^
22 > (and 56 more with the same problems)
23 > [...]
24 >
25 >
26 > It seems that some pppl found perl 5.24 somewhere, which doesn't seem to
27 > be available:
28 >
29 >
30 > eix dev-lang/perl
31 > [I] dev-lang/perl
32 > Available versions: 5.20.2(0/5.20) ~5.20.2-r1(0/5.20) ~5.22.0(0/5.22) ~5.22.1(0/5.22) {berkdb debug doc gdbm ithreads}
33 > Installed versions: 5.20.2(01:11:43 AM 04/06/2015)(berkdb gdbm -debug -doc -ithreads)
34 > Homepage: http://www.perl.org/
35 > Description: Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language
36 >
37 >
38 > An update is overdue. What should I do?
39
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42 Your tree is way behind, 5.24 has been out for ages (or maybe you just
43 need eix-update to be run)
44
45 A perl update is a large operation and the devs need to put in a lot of
46 work before everything is ready. This one was especially troublesome for
47 me, it took a few days of --sync before it all smoothed out