On Mon, 01 Jul 2024 19:16:11 -0400,
Wol wrote:
>
> On 01/07/2024 20:27, John Covici wrote:
> >> I seem to recall having to run that during that upgrade as well. It
> >> reinstalled a lot of packages but it worked. It's worth trying for sure.
> >>
> > But don't you do that after the upgrade -- I can't even start the
> > upgrade, so how would perl-cleaner help?
>
> Trust me it does!
>
> You have a bunch of old perl scripts, one (or more) of which are
> blocking the upgrade. perl-cleaner will upgrade them to the
> latest version compatible with your current perl, which then
> frees up the perl upgrade. Make sure you run perl-cleaner again
> afterwards, to ensure you have the absolute latest version of all
> these extra bits. In fact, you should really run perl-cleaner
> after every "emerge --update". Most people most of the time
> either forget or don't realise ...
>
> Don't forget, if I've got it right, perl and CPAN predate linux,
> so if there's an argument about who needs to change, perl simply
> says "I was here first, you have to do it *my* way".
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
>
I ran perl-cleaner and it is going right now -- installing perl itself
and lots of others -- thanks a lot people.
--
Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
How do
you spend it?
John Covici wb2una
cov...@ccs.covici.com
