{"id":24,"date":"2005-06-28T23:20:04","date_gmt":"2005-06-28T22:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/freebsd\/?p=24"},"modified":"2005-06-28T23:20:04","modified_gmt":"2005-06-28T22:20:04","slug":"strange-perl-error-while-updating-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/freebsd\/2005\/06\/strange-perl-error-while-updating-ports\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange perl error while updating ports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When running <\/p>\n<pre>\/usr\/local\/sbin\/portupgrade -ra<\/pre>\n<p> I got several errors:<\/p>\n<pre>** Port marked as IGNORE: databases\/p5-DBD-Pg:\n        Needs DBI 1.38 which needs perl 5.6, install lang\/perl5.8 and try again\n\t<ul>\n\t\t<li>Port marked as IGNORE: mail\/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin:\n        Needs perl 5.6.1 or higher, install lang\/perl5.8 and try again<\/pre>\n<p>Could not figure out what was wrong since I just had installed perl5.8 from ports! After googling I found out that apparently this is a problem with old FreeBSD installations, 4.10 like I have. The problem is that the installation does not update some files that are automatically done on systems like 5.3. By issuing the command <\/p>\n<pre>\/usr\/local\/bin\/use.perl port<\/pre>\n<p> the updates are done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When running \/usr\/local\/sbin\/portupgrade -ra I got several errors: ** Port marked as IGNORE: databases\/p5-DBD-Pg: Needs DBI 1.38 which needs perl 5.6, install lang\/perl5.8 and try again Port marked as IGNORE: mail\/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin: Needs perl 5.6.1 or higher, install lang\/perl5.8 and try &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/freebsd\/2005\/06\/strange-perl-error-while-updating-ports\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/freebsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/freebsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/freebsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/freebsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/freebsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/freebsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/freebsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/freebsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/freebsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}