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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.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 09:22:57
Message-Id: 5433B0DD.9090000@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] perl-5.20.1 - has anybody managed to upgrade Perl? by Helmut Jarausch
1 On 07/10/2014 10:13, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > dev-lang/perl-5.20.1 is in the tree (unmasked), but trying to upgrade
5 > gives me lots of blocks requiring versions which are not
6 > in the tree, yet, like
7 >
8 > [blocks B ] <perl-core/Socket-2.13.0 ("<perl-core/Socket-2.13.0" is
9 > blocking virtual/perl-Socket-2.13.0)
10 >
11 > Has anybody tried to upgrade to this version of Perl?
12 >
13 > Many thanks for some hints/comments,
14 > Helmut
15 >
16 >
17
18
19 For me it JustWorked(tm):
20
21 $ eix -e perl
22 [I] dev-lang/perl
23 Available versions: 5.16.3(0/5.16) 5.18.2-r1(0/5.18)
24 (~)5.20.0-r1(0/5.20) (~)5.20.1(0/5.20) {berkdb debug doc gdbm ithreads}
25 Installed versions: 5.20.1(21:31:01 25/09/2014)(berkdb gdbm -debug
26 -doc -ithreads)
27 Homepage: http://www.perl.org/
28 Description: Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report
29 Language
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33 The upgrade was seamless and ran to completion. Even perl-cleaner
34 afterwards returned nothing to do.
35
36 Have you checked your local package.* files looking for entries that
37 might interfere?
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41 --
42 Alan McKinnon
43 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com