Changes between Version 66 and Version 67 of ProblemHotlist

Timestamp:

May 28, 2011, 10:07:24 PM (13 years ago)

Author:

jmroot (Joshua Root)

Comment:

update perl conflict entry

ProblemHotlist

@@ -27 +27 @@
 '''Error message:'''[[BR]]
 {{{
-Error: Activating perl5 5.8.8_0 failed: Image error: /opt/local/bin/a2p is being used by the active perl5.8 port.  Please deactivate this port first, or use the -f flag to force the activation.
+Error: Activating perl5 @5.12.3_1 failed: Image error: /opt/local/bin/a2p is being used by the active perl5.8 port.  Please deactivate this port first, or use the -f flag to force the activation.
 }}}
 
-The perl ports recently changed the paths for builtin modules, which can potentially cause issues resulting in this error message.
+The perl5.8, perl5.10 and perl5.12 ports used to conflict with each other unless a particular variant was selected. This has now been solved by suffixing their binaries with a version number, and the perl5 port installs links without any suffix. The old versions of perl5.x conflict with the current version of perl5.
 
-'''Workaround:'''[[BR]]
-The current method to get around this issue is to run
+'''Fix:'''[[BR]]
+To fix this issue, upgrade whichever of the above ports that you have installed.
 {{{
-port -f uninstall perl5
+port upgrade installed and \( perl5.8 perl5.10 perl5.12 \)
 }}}
-then run your initial install command.
 
 == Fetch failures == #fetch-failures