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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Help to upgrade perl?
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 20:24:38
Message-Id: 529CEC83.9030408@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Help to upgrade perl? by Michael Higgins
1 On 02/12/2013 19:41, Michael Higgins wrote:
2 > Hey, all --
3 >
4 > I have two systems, one of which got perl 5.16.1, somehow. My other
5 > system is still at perl 5.12... and I'm having a heck of a time trying
6 > to upgrade that system to 5.16.1.
7 >
8 > Is there some trick that I should recall?
9 >
10 > This is what I tried:
11 >
12 > USE="-build" emerge -v =dev-lang/perl-5.16.1
13 >
14 > And this is what I got:
15 >
16 > (dev-lang/perl-5.12.4-r1::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
17 > ~dev-lang/perl-5.12.4 required by
18 > (virtual/perl-i18n-langtags-0.35::gentoo, installed)
19 >
20 > (dev-lang/perl-5.16.1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in
21 > by =dev-lang/perl-5.16.1
22 > >=dev-lang/perl-5.16 required by
23 > (dev-perl/IO-Socket-SSL-1.840.0::gentoo, installed)
24 > =dev-lang/perl-5.16* required by
25 > (virtual/perl-digest-base-1.170.0-r1::gentoo, installed) (and 144
26 > more with the same problems)
27 >
28 > 144 more with the same problem? There must be some incantation that
29 > handles all that, no?
30 >
31 > Thanks for any pointers, foax!
32 >
33 > Cheers,
34 >
35 > - Michael Higgins
36 >
37 >
38 >
39 >
40
41 emerge -avuND world
42
43 Why 5.16.1? that is the lowest version that is ~arch; your next sync and
44 update is going to want to upgrade it anyway.
45
46 Lots of things have been moving around in perl land, modules moving into
47 core etc etc. A proper world update takes care of all the necessary
48 blockers.
49
50 Or, seeing as you are going to remerge everything perl related anyway,
51 you might as well just undelete everything perl-related (keeping an
52 accurate list), and then merge the whole lot back
53
54
55
56 --
57 Alan McKinnon
58 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] Help to upgrade perl? [SOLVED] Michael Higgins <linux@×××××××.org>