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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to avoid perl harbor (pun intended)
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 12:58:58
Message-Id: 20150713135844.2d9d6916@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] How to avoid perl harbor (pun intended) by walt
1 On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 05:19:46 -0700, walt wrote:
2
3 > Today's update started as a disaster: perl wants to upgrade from
4 > 5.20.2 to 5.22.0, but all of my existing perl modules insist on having
5 > 5.20.2 so the perl update blocks and then emerge stopped with an error
6 > and left the whole mess for me to solve. (To me this appears to be a
7 > bug in the perl family of ebuilds.)
8
9 I've upgraded 4 machines so far and all of them handled it perfectly,
10 updating Perl and then installing or reinstalling the modules.
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12 "emerge --update --deep --changed-use --ask -v --with-bdeps y --keep-going
13 @system @world" reported
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15 Total: 190 packages (49 upgrades, 141 reinstalls, 3
16 uninstalls), Size of downloads: 6,246 KiB Conflict: 3 blocks
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18 The three blocks were handled automatically by portage.
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20 Which version of portage are you using?
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23 --
24 Neil Bothwick
25
26 Smoking Can Damage Your Health....Unless us Non-Smokers do it first!

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to avoid perl harbor (pun intended) Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>