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From: covici@××××××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] perl-5.20.1 - has anybody managed to upgrade Perl?
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 16:33:00
Message-Id: 17689.1412699521@ccs.covici.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] perl-5.20.1 - has anybody managed to upgrade Perl? by Helmut Jarausch
1 Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote:
2
3 > On 10/07/2014 10:50:53 AM, Tomas Mozes wrote:
4 > > On 2014-10-07 10:13, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
5 > >> Hi,
6 > >>
7 > >> dev-lang/perl-5.20.1 is in the tree (unmasked), but trying to upgrade
8 > >> gives me lots of blocks requiring versions which are not
9 > >> in the tree, yet, like
10 > >>
11 > >> [blocks B ] <perl-core/Socket-2.13.0 ("<perl-core/Socket-2.13.0"
12 > >> is blocking virtual/perl-Socket-2.13.0)
13 > >>
14 > >> Has anybody tried to upgrade to this version of Perl?
15 > >>
16 > >> Many thanks for some hints/comments,
17 > >> Helmut
18 > >
19 > > emerge -av1 perl-cleaner
20 > > emerge -av1O dev-lang/perl
21 >
22 > These two worked just fine, BUT
23 >
24 > > perl-cleaner --all
25 >
26 > fails miserably showing many blocks mentioning versions which are not
27 > in the (unstable) tree
28 > like, e.g.
29 >
30 > perl-core/File-Spec-3.480.0 (and 28 more of those)
31 >
32 > Typically there is virtual/perl-File-Spec-3.480.0 which requires
33 > perl-core/File-Spec
34 > of the same version, but (here) there is only
35 > perl-core/File-Spec-3.400.0
36 >
37 > I wonder how all of you could get around this?
38 >
39 > Many thanks for your help,
40 I don't have perl-core/File-Spec installed, so I did not run into that
41 one. But I wonder if your tree is syncing properly or someting?
42
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