PERL Downgrade?

mr-simon · Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2003 1:41 pm Post subject: PERL Downgrade?

I'd like to try downgrading perl to 5.6.something, for this reason. When I tried before, I added the line: >=sys-devel/perl-5.7.0 to package.mask and did an emerge -u perl.

Perl itself was downgraded, but subsequently emerging qmail-scanner (and I presume any other perl software) failed because it couldn't find Time::HiRes. (Even though according to 'emerge -s Time-HiRes' it was installed... I also tried re-emerging it.)

I figured this might have something to do with libperl 5.8.0 still being on there... So I tried to mask >=sys-devel/libperl-5.7.0, but then I couldn't re-emerge it because it said it was masked. So... No ebuild for early versions of libperl available?

How do I go about getting There from Here?
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Lovechild · Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2003 1:43 pm Post subject:

here's what I do

emerge -ep world |grep dev-perl

that should give you a list of the perl modules you have installed... now emerge those again to have them linked against the new perl.

hope it helps

steveb · Advocate Joined: 18 Sep 2002 Posts: 4564

when i upgraded to perl 5.8.x then i was requested by the emerge application to execute the following command to update some perl libraries:

steveb · Advocate Joined: 18 Sep 2002 Posts: 4564

btw... this is the output i get when i run /usr/portage/sys-devel/perl/files/libperl_rebuilder again: