Re: Installing X11 gives perl version conflict

2011-06-24 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Dieter == Dieter BSD dieter...@engineer.com writes: Dieter Attempt to install package xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.2.tbz Dieter gives conflict between perl-5.10.1_3 and perl-5.12.3 Dieter even when installing into clean directory tree. Packages seem like a great idea when you get started, but they're

Re: Installing X11 gives perl version conflict

2011-06-24 Thread doug
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Dieter == Dieter BSD dieter...@engineer.com writes: Dieter Attempt to install package xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.2.tbz Dieter gives conflict between perl-5.10.1_3 and perl-5.12.3 Dieter even when installing into clean directory tree. Packages seem

Re: Installing X11 gives perl version conflict

2011-06-24 Thread Michael Powell
d...@safeport.com wrote: On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Dieter == Dieter BSD dieter...@engineer.com writes: Dieter Attempt to install package xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.2.tbz Dieter gives conflict between perl-5.10.1_3 and perl-5.12.3 Dieter even when installing into clean

Re: Installing X11 gives perl version conflict

2011-06-24 Thread doug
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Michael Powell wrote: d...@safeport.com wrote: On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Dieter == Dieter BSD dieter...@engineer.com writes: Dieter Attempt to install package xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.2.tbz Dieter gives conflict between perl-5.10.1_3 and perl-5.12.3

Re: Installing X11 gives perl version conflict

2011-06-24 Thread perryh
RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: If building isn't an option then it's better to stick to one release trees at a time. Unfortunately, it seems that pkg_add(1) does not make that as easy as one might prefer. I discovered recently that, even though I am running 8.1-RELEASE (and not

Re: Installing X11 gives perl version conflict

2011-06-24 Thread Dieter BSD
perryh running 8.1-RELEASE (and not 8-STABLE) [ ... ] perryh /packages-8.1-release/ AH HA The .message file contains the solution (I hope): packages-*-release directories are built from the ports collection shipped with the release, and are not updated thereafter. packages-*-stable and

Installing X11 gives perl version conflict

2011-06-23 Thread Dieter BSD
FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 Attempting to install X11 server. Attempt to install package xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.2.tbz gives conflict between perl-5.10.1_3 and perl-5.12.3 even when installing into clean directory tree. # mkdir /tmp/test_pkg_install # export PKG_DBDIR=/tmp/test_pkg_install/var/db/pkg #