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From: Ian Bloss <ianlinkcd@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to upgrade perl
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 16:53:45
Message-Id: CADopNUcoT6jV0riQqYN-+oj=Xk3bkx823rvk7AC+WY-dZMkFgw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] how to upgrade perl by lee
1 Try perl-cleaner, read the man page to see all the options.
2
3 On Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 12:28 lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote:
4
5 >
6 > Hi,
7 >
8 > how do you do an update despite perl blocking it?
9 >
10 >
11 > emerge -a --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y --keep-going @world
12 > [...]
13 > dev-lang/perl:0
14 >
15 > (dev-lang/perl-5.22.2:0/5.22::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled
16 > in by
17 > =dev-lang/perl-5.22* required by
18 > (virtual/perl-IO-Zlib-1.100.0-r6:0/0::gentoo, installed)
19 > ^ ^^^^^
20 > (and 8 more with the same problem)
21 >
22 > (dev-lang/perl-5.20.2:0/5.20::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
23 > dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by
24 > (dev-perl/Encode-Locale-1.30.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed)
25 > ^^^^^^^^
26 > =dev-lang/perl-5.20* required by
27 > (virtual/perl-Pod-Parser-1.620.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
28 > ^ ^^^^^
29 > (and 56 more with the same problems)
30 > [...]
31 >
32 >
33 > It seems that some pppl found perl 5.24 somewhere, which doesn't seem to
34 > be available:
35 >
36 >
37 > eix dev-lang/perl
38 > [I] dev-lang/perl
39 > Available versions: 5.20.2(0/5.20) ~5.20.2-r1(0/5.20)
40 > ~5.22.0(0/5.22) ~5.22.1(0/5.22) {berkdb debug doc gdbm ithreads}
41 > Installed versions: 5.20.2(01:11:43 AM 04/06/2015)(berkdb gdbm
42 > -debug -doc -ithreads)
43 > Homepage: http://www.perl.org/
44 > Description: Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report
45 > Language
46 >
47 >
48 > An update is overdue. What should I do?
49 >
50 >