Re: [gentoo-user] perl-5.20.1 - has anybody managed to upgrade Perl?

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Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:

> On 10/07/2014 10:50:53 AM, Tomas Mozes wrote:
> > On 2014-10-07 10:13, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> dev-lang/perl-5.20.1 is in the tree (unmasked), but trying to upgrade
> >> gives me lots of blocks requiring versions which are not
> >> in the tree, yet, like
> >> 
> >> [blocks B      ] <perl-core/Socket-2.13.0 ("<perl-core/Socket-2.13.0"
> >> is blocking virtual/perl-Socket-2.13.0)
> >> 
> >> Has anybody tried to upgrade to this version of Perl?
> >> 
> >> Many thanks for some hints/comments,
> >> Helmut
> > 
> > emerge -av1 perl-cleaner
> > emerge -av1O dev-lang/perl
> 
> These two worked just fine, BUT
> 
> > perl-cleaner --all
> 
> fails miserably showing many blocks mentioning versions which are not  
> in the (unstable) tree
> like, e.g.
> 
> perl-core/File-Spec-3.480.0 (and 28 more of those)
> 
> Typically there is virtual/perl-File-Spec-3.480.0 which requires  
> perl-core/File-Spec
> of the same version, but (here) there is only  
> perl-core/File-Spec-3.400.0
> 
> I wonder how all of you could get around this?
> 
> Many thanks for your help,
I don't have perl-core/File-Spec installed, so I did not run into that
one.  But I wonder if your tree is syncing properly or someting?


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