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#1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 08:46 AM

Hello,
recently a vulnerability has been found in Perl, so I tried to
update Perl with emerge. This went fine on one system, on another, which
is a bit older, I get the following output:

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[blocks B ] <dev-perl/Test-Simple-0.47-r1 (from pkg dev-lang/perl-5.8.5-r2)
[blocks B ] <dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.17 (from pkg dev-lang/perl-5.8.5-r2)
[ebuild U ] sys-devel/libperl-5.8.5 [5.8.0] +berkdb -debug +gdbm -ithreads (-uclibc) 11,651 kB
[ebuild U ] sys-libs/gdbm-1.8.3-r1 [1.8.0-r5] +berkdb -debug 223 kB
[ebuild U ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.5-r2 [5.8.0-r9] +berkdb -debug -doc +gdbm -ithreads -perlsuid (-uclibc) 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 11,874 kB

I am confused now--how can I update Perl if it blocks itself?

Thanks in advance for any help,
DrTebi

#2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 08:46 AM

So anyway, it was like, 14:59 CET Dec 08 2004, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
DrTebi was all like, "Dude,

> I am confused now--how can I update Perl if it blocks itself?

It's not blocking itself, but the two ebuilds that are blocking the
upgrade have probably been included in the main perl build by now.

'emerge -Cva dev-perl/Test-Simple dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker && \
emerge -Duva perl'

Considering you still have perl 5.8.0 on it, I'd 'emerge -Duva world'
as soon as possible.

hth.

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