problem upgrading pflogsumm

[Terry Barnum]

On Mar 14, 2012, at 2:41 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Mar 14, 2012, at 12:05, 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?
>> 
>> OSX 10.6.4, i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5664)
> 
> 
> Looks like you haven't updated your ports in over a year; this is a very old problem by now. You need to upgrade perl5.8 first. Then you can upgrade your other ports.
> 
> sudo port upgrade perl5.8
> sudo port upgrade outdated
> 
> In the future you may wish to upgrade your ports more frequently. We try to leave upgrade paths in place, but typically remove them after a year, so you should upgrade more frequently than once a year.
> 
> (This particular problem, however, never had a nice upgrade path: you always had to know to upgrade perl5.8 first manually.)

Thanks Ryan and Lawrence. Point taken about more frequent upgrades. The machine in question is a production server so I tend to be hesitant about updates because I don't want to break it.

-Terry

Terry Barnum
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