Upgrading portage blocked by perl5. Help

Garbz

Hey all.

Just did an emerge sync and as usual it told me that an upgrade to portage was availuable. Emerge -UDp portage however did not work very well at all.

Here's the output:

bonsaikitten · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 9:28 am Post subject:

Hi,

you have one package blocking another.
There have been some pretty good modifications to perl 5.8 for gentoo. These blockers are a sideeffect. You have to manually unmerge the blocking package, then emerge -U world.

Don't worry, no functionality will be lost.

Garbz · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 9:50 am Post subject:

so is File-Spec or perl blocked ?

And which one do i unmerge. Is perl safe to unmerge?
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bonsaikitten · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 10:08 am Post subject:

FileSpec blocks perl, so unmerging FileSpec should resolve this block.

Do NOT unmerge Perl!! It's used in many places... You would not like to reinstall from scratch, would ya?

Garbz · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 10:55 am Post subject:

that's what i though thanks a lot.

I couldn't remember if it was perl or python that was critical, I know one of them is used for portage, so naturally i touched nothing till u replied :lol:

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bonsaikitten · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 11:26 am Post subject:

Well, portage is written in python, but gcc uses perl in some places, so they are both critical

ghardey · n00b Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Posts: 15

I had a similiar problem and FileSpec was one of my blocks. Both blocks were from the perl package. In an earlier post you recommended:

Garbz · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 12:21 am Post subject:

i took out file spec and emerged world. Worked fine.
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Brandy · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 3:20 am Post subject:

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