Noah wrote: > I am running portmanager and updating all dependencies along the way. I > am finding that perl gets updated to the system version. I want to keep > it to version 5.8. . FreeBSD4-11 is my OS. > > so in order to get portmanager to stop updating perl do I add the > following to /usr/local/etc/portmanager/pm-020.conf > > ---- snip --- > > IGNORE|lang/perl5.8| > > > --- snip --- > > > will that work?
It should work. I have it configured to ignore JAVA and OpenOfice. It just issues a message in the log that the port is being ignored. Out of curiosity, why can you not run a newer version of Perl on that OS? -- Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"