Error trying to upgrade

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 15, 2009, at 05:49, Doctor Who wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Ryan Schmidt 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?

It means if you need p5-digest-md5, you can force its activation, and  
it will overwrite the similar files that had been provided by the  
perl5.8 port:

sudo port -f activate p5-digest-md5