Changes between Version 66 and Version 67 of ProblemHotlist


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Timestamp:
May 28, 2011, 10:07:24 PM (13 years ago)
Author:
jmroot (Joshua Root)
Comment:

update perl conflict entry

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    2727'''Error message:'''[[BR]]
    2828{{{
    29 Error: Activating perl5 5.8.8_0 failed: Image error: /opt/local/bin/a2p is being used by the active perl5.8 port.  Please deactivate this port first, or use the -f flag to force the activation.
     29Error: Activating perl5 @5.12.3_1 failed: Image error: /opt/local/bin/a2p is being used by the active perl5.8 port.  Please deactivate this port first, or use the -f flag to force the activation.
    3030}}}
    3131
    32 The perl ports recently changed the paths for builtin modules, which can potentially cause issues resulting in this error message.
     32The perl5.8, perl5.10 and perl5.12 ports used to conflict with each other unless a particular variant was selected. This has now been solved by suffixing their binaries with a version number, and the perl5 port installs links without any suffix. The old versions of perl5.x conflict with the current version of perl5.
    3333
    34 '''Workaround:'''[[BR]]
    35 The current method to get around this issue is to run
     34'''Fix:'''[[BR]]
     35To fix this issue, upgrade whichever of the above ports that you have installed.
    3636{{{
    37 port -f uninstall perl5
     37port upgrade installed and \( perl5.8 perl5.10 perl5.12 \)
    3838}}}
    39 then run your initial install command.
    4039
    4140== Fetch failures == #fetch-failures