problem upgrading pflogsumm

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Mar 14, 2012, at 1:05 p.m., Terry Barnum wrote:

> I tried to upgrade pflogsumm but it failed:
> 
> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/local/bin/corelist is being used by the active perl5.8 port.  Please deactivate this port first, or use 'port -f activate p5.12-module-corelist' to force the activation.
> Log for p5.12-module-corelist is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_perl_p5-module-corelist/p5.12-module-corelist/main.log
> Error: Problem while installing p5.12-module-corelist
> 
> Running a 'port dependents perl5.8' shows:
> perl5 depends on perl5.8
> rsnapshot depends on perl5.8
> 
> Sorry if this is a basic macports question, but won't deactivating perl5.8 break perl5 and rsnapshot?

It would, but you probably don't have to go that far.

I would guess that you have p5.8-module-corelist installed, which conflicts with p5.12-module-corelist. Try uninstalling pflogsumm's perl5.8-specific dependencies:

    $ sudo port uninstall --follow-dependencies p5.8-date-calc

vq