[MacPorts] ProblemHotlist modified

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Sat May 28 15:07:24 PDT 2011


Changed page "ProblemHotlist" by jmr at macports.org from 14.200.200.212*
Page URL: <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/ProblemHotlist>
Diff URL: <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/ProblemHotlist?action=diff&version=67>
Revision 67
Comment: update perl conflict entry

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Index: ProblemHotlist
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--- ProblemHotlist (version: 66)
+++ ProblemHotlist (version: 67)
@@ -26,17 +26,16 @@
 
 '''Error message:'''[[BR]]
 {{{
-Error: Activating perl5 5.8.8_0 failed: Image error: /opt/local/bin/a2p is being used by the active perl5.8 port.  Please deactivate this port first, or use the -f flag to force the activation.
+Error: Activating perl5 @5.12.3_1 failed: Image error: /opt/local/bin/a2p is being used by the active perl5.8 port.  Please deactivate this port first, or use the -f flag to force the activation.
 }}}
 
-The perl ports recently changed the paths for builtin modules, which can potentially cause issues resulting in this error message.
+The perl5.8, perl5.10 and perl5.12 ports used to conflict with each other unless a particular variant was selected. This has now been solved by suffixing their binaries with a version number, and the perl5 port installs links without any suffix. The old versions of perl5.x conflict with the current version of perl5.
 
-'''Workaround:'''[[BR]]
-The current method to get around this issue is to run
+'''Fix:'''[[BR]]
+To fix this issue, upgrade whichever of the above ports that you have installed.
 {{{
-port -f uninstall perl5
+port upgrade installed and \( perl5.8 perl5.10 perl5.12 \)
 }}}
-then run your initial install command.
 
 == Fetch failures == #fetch-failures
 

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