From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C2D313838B for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2014 08:53:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7EFF9E0AC2; Tue, 7 Oct 2014 08:53:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail0200.smtp25.com (mail0200.smtp25.com [174.37.170.200]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46D1EE09F1 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2014 08:53:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (d-out-001.smtp25.com [67.228.158.174]) by s-out-001.smtp25.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id s978rYF4021751 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2014 04:53:34 -0400 Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.9/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s978rXQd019299 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2014 04:53:33 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] perl-5.20.1 - has anybody managed to upgrade Perl? In-reply-to: <1412669625.19459.0@numa-i> References: <1412669625.19459.0@numa-i> Comments: In-reply-to Helmut Jarausch message dated "Tue, 07 Oct 2014 10:13:45 +0200." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.2; nmh 1.3; GNU Emacs 23.4.1 Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 04:53:33 -0400 Message-ID: <19298.1412672013@ccs.covici.com> From: covici@ccs.covici.com X-SpamH-OriginatingIP: 70.109.53.110 X-SpamH-Filter: s-out-001.smtp25.com-s978rYF4021751 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: 1dfcea4b-7ace-4c7b-b59e-c5a397b09895 X-Archives-Hash: 9351cd17b93a27882a101fcec3214de1 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 ] is blocking virtual/perl-Socket-2.13.0) > > Has anybody tried to upgrade to this version of Perl? I have dont this, but I am using unstable, so maybe that is the difference. Portage did a lot of what perl-cleaner used to do, but I still had to run it anyway. A bit of strangeness, but it did work. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com