Error trying to upgrade

[Doctor Who]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> On Jan 14, 2009, at 23:11, Bryan Blackburn wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 09:55:59PM -0600, Ryan Schmidt said:
>> [...]
>>>
>>> p5-digest-md5, on the other hand, is a perl module, and it happens to
>>> provide a module (Digest::MD5) which perl itself already provides.
>>> Perhaps that was added with the recent update to perl 5.8.9. So you may
>>> not need the p5-digest-md5 port at all; you may be just fine with just
>>> the
>>> perl5.8 port. You can try uninstalling p5-digest-md5, or just leave it
>>> deactivated.
>>
>> Don't for get about #12710,
>>
>> <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/12710>
>>
>> where several modules replace what comes with perl.
>
> Indeed. I didn't think p5-digest-md5 was one of those that traditionally did
> this, but I see in #12710 that it is. It's just missing the classic
>
> post-destroot {
>    ui_msg "You must install or activate this package with '-f' (force) as it
> needs to overwrite files installed by the perl5.8 port"
> }
>
> block.
>


So does that mean that there's nothing I can do until the bug is addressed?