Re: [gentoo-user] perl-5.20.1 - has anybody managed to upgrade Perl?

Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> dev-lang/perl-5.20.1 is in the tree (unmasked), but trying to upgrade
> gives me lots of blocks requiring versions which are not
> in the tree, yet, like
>
> [blocks B      ] <perl-core/Socket-2.13.0 ("<perl-core/Socket-2.13.0"
> is blocking virtual/perl-Socket-2.13.0)
>
> Has anybody tried to upgrade to this version of Perl?

I have dont this, but I am using unstable, so maybe that is the
difference.  Portage did a lot of what perl-cleaner used to do, but I
still had to run it anyway.  A bit of strangeness, but it did work.


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