perl ports overwriting files, so need -f?

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Sep 17, 2008, at 3:58 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2008-09-15 12:25:37 -0400, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>> Except that you say it as a blanket statement even though you've been
>> shown at least one case where the port requires the newer version  
>> (svk).
>
> No, upstream doesn't claim any such dependency on a newer version of
> a Perl module. You're just seeing a bug, that needs to be fixed.


The Makefile.PL that ships with svk clearly states a requirement for  
File::Temp 0.17, which is why the p5-file-temp-svkonly port was  
created (as 0.17 is newer than what was distributed with perl 5.8.8).
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