Error with port upgrade outdated

[Garfield-fr (Bertrand Zuchuat)]

Hi,

After the command "port selfupdate", i would iike to update all package with "port upgrade outdated" but i have an error:

Error: p5.12-authen-sasl has been made obsolete by the port p5.16-authen-sasl. Please install p5.16-authen-sasl instead.
Error: org.macports.configure for port p5.12-authen-sasl returned: obsolete port
Warning: targets not executed for p5.12-authen-sasl: org.macports.activate org.macports.configure org.macports.build org.macports.destroot org.macports.install
Error: Failed to install p5.12-authen-sasl
Please see the log file for port p5.12-authen-sasl for details:
    /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_perl_p5-graveyard/p5.12-authen-sasl/main.log
Error: The following dependencies were not installed: p5.12-authen-sasl p5.12-error p5.12-libwww-perl p5.12-net-smtp-ssl p5.12-svn-simple p5.12-term-readkey
Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1

Thank's for your support

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Well the message is correct: p5.12-authen-sasl has been made obsolete by the port p5.16-authen-sasl. Please install p5.16-authen-sasl instead.

What's not clear is why MacPorts was unable to perform this replacement for you. But the workaround is:

sudo port -f deactivate p5.12-authen-sasl
sudo port install p5.16-authen-sasl

[Garfield-fr (Bertrand Zuchuat)]

Thank's for your help

Git install is compiled with perl 5.12 (on previous version).

To resolve my problem, i use this:

sudo port uninstall git
port clean git
sudo port install git

Thank's again

[larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)]

Okay, that makes sense. You probably had git +perl5_12 installed, which prevented the replacement.

[larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)]

#46570 is tracking removal of git’s perl5_12 and perl5_14 variants.