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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to avoid perl harbor (pun intended)
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 13:04:48
Message-Id: 55A3B765.7070807@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to avoid perl harbor (pun intended) by Neil Bothwick
1 On 13/07/2015 14:58, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 05:19:46 -0700, walt wrote:
3 >
4 >> Today's update started as a disaster: perl wants to upgrade from
5 >> 5.20.2 to 5.22.0, but all of my existing perl modules insist on having
6 >> 5.20.2 so the perl update blocks and then emerge stopped with an error
7 >> and left the whole mess for me to solve. (To me this appears to be a
8 >> bug in the perl family of ebuilds.)
9 >
10 > I've upgraded 4 machines so far and all of them handled it perfectly,
11 > updating Perl and then installing or reinstalling the modules.
12 >
13 > "emerge --update --deep --changed-use --ask -v --with-bdeps y --keep-going
14 > @system @world" reported
15 >
16 > Total: 190 packages (49 upgrades, 141 reinstalls, 3
17 > uninstalls), Size of downloads: 6,246 KiB Conflict: 3 blocks
18 >
19 > The three blocks were handled automatically by portage.
20 >
21 > Which version of portage are you using?
22
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24 Same here, a mostly problem-free upgrade with portage-2.2.20.
25 There was one file collision with perl-code/Encode, easily fixed rm
26
27 I'm also busy with a new install while all this is going on, and that
28 machine have some initial issues - something blocking perl-5.22.0 -
29 which has now gone away and I don't know what I did to make that happen
30 :-) IIRC I manually upgraded portage to latest ~ (but a lot wqas going
31 on so can't be totally sure)
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35 Alan McKinnon
36 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com