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From: Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] perl 5.12 downgrade ??
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:45:57
Message-Id: 20101028194403.GC17225@syscon4.inet
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] perl 5.12 downgrade ?? by Joseph
1 On 10/28/10 06:58, Joseph wrote:
2 >After upgrading to Perl 5.12 and all cleanup "perl-cleaner --all"
3 >When I run "emerge --depclean" it asked me to removed the following packages listed below.
4 >However, when I check all of them are needed by some other packages. Do I need them? (I retained them all)
5 >
6 >virtual/perl-Package-Constants
7 >virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib
8 >virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2
9 >dev-java/antlr
10 >perl-core/MIME-Base64
11 >perl-core/Test-Simple
12 >perl-core/Archive-Tar
13 >perl-core/Test-Harness
14 >perl-core/IO-Compress
15 >perl-core/IO-Zlib
16 >perl-core/Digest-MD5
17 >perl-core/CGI
18 >perl-core/Digest-SHA
19 >perl-core/Compress-Raw-Bzip2
20 >perl-core/Sys-Syslog
21 >perl-core/digest-base
22 >perl-core/Compress-Raw-Zlib
23 >perl-core/version
24 >perl-core/DB_File
25 >perl-core/Package-Constants
26 >dev-java/gjdoc
27 >perl-core/libnet
28 >
29 >The reason I'm asking is that I'm getting some strange errors when using 'sql-ledger' eg.
30 >Using a hash as a reference is deprecated at SL/IS.pm line 582.
31 >
32 >I think it might be related to recent perl upgrade.
33 >Is it possible / safe to downgrade to previous "perl-5.8.8-r8" ?
34 >or do I just delete the above perl module.
35 >
36 >--
37 >Joseph
38
39 I'm trying to downgrade perl on one of my machine to 5.8 and got stuck with a block:
40 [blocks B ] <sys-devel/libperl-5.10.1 ("<sys-devel/libperl-5.10.1" is blocking dev-lang/perl-5.12.2-r1)
41
42 I've tried to mask:
43 >=dev-lang/perl-5.12.2-r1
44 >=sys-devel/libperl-5.10.1
45
46 but it doesn't help so I run:
47 emerge -1 --nodeps =libperl-5.8.8* && emerge --nodeps =perl-5.8.8*
48
49 this compiled OK but running "perl-cleaner --all"
50 it tries to recomile imagemagic and it fails:
51 emerge -vD1 net-print/foomatic-db-engine:0 dev-db/postgresql-server:8.4 app-office/gnumeric:0 x11-terms/rxvt-unicode:0
52
53 libtool: install: warning: remember to run `libtool --finish /usr/lib/ImageMagick-6.6.2/modules-Q16/coders'
54 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/imagemagick-6.6.2.5/work/ImageMagick-6.6.2-5'
55 make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
56 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/imagemagick-6.6.2.5/work/ImageMagick-6.6.2-5'
57 make: *** [install] Error 2
58 * ERROR: media-gfx/imagemagick-6.6.2.5 failed:
59 * (no error message)
60 *
61 * Call stack:
62 * ebuild.sh, line 54: Called src_install
63 * environment, line 2661: Called die
64 * The specific snippet of code:
65 * emake DESTDIR="${D}" install || die;
66 *
67 * If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info =media-gfx/imagemagick-6.6.2.5',
68 * the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv =media-gfx/imagemagick-6.6.2.5'.
69 * The complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/media-gfx:imagemagick-6.6.2.5:20101028-182120.log'.
70 * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/imagemagick-6.6.2.5/temp/environment'.
71 * S: '/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/imagemagick-6.6.2.5/work/ImageMagick-6.6.2-5'
72
73 Any help will be appreciated what to do with it.
74
75 --
76 Joseph

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