#184 PERL and dmake packages need an old version of themselves

[Jean-Christophe FRISCH]

Hi,

It's my first message on your board (and on SF in general), so let me first thank you a lot for this nice piece of software ! It makes everything easier for noobs like me.

Now the problem: I'd like to install the PERL package but it seems that it require older version of itself and of dmake. Is this intentional ? I may need other libs as well, could there be a problem with version tracking when creating the package's dependancies on your side ?

(note sure that I've correctly set the attributes of this ticket...)

[Alexx83]

Don't understand what you mean. Perl can be installed by pacman:
pacman -S perl

What probem here?

[Jean-Christophe FRISCH]

Woops, sorry, I meant this package: mingw-w64-x86_64-perl

It want to install a previous version of itself, as well as for this package : mingw-w64-x86_64-dmake

[Alexx83]

Don't understand what you mean again. Show me your console ourtput and point to a problem.

[Jean-Christophe FRISCH]

This is the console output:

$ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-perl
résolution des dépendances...
recherche des conflits entre paquets...

Paquets (2) mingw-w64-x86_64-dmake-4.12.2-5 mingw-w64-x86_64-perl-5.20.2-1

Taille totale du téléchargement : 9,73 MiB
Taille totale installée : 54,00 MiB

:: Procéder à l’installation ? [O/n] o
:: Récupération des paquets...
erreur : échec de récupération du fichier « mingw-w64-x86_64-dmake-4.12.2-5-any.pkg.tar.xz » depuis downloads.sourceforge.net : The requested URL returned error: 404
avertissement : erreur lors de la récupération de certains fichiers
erreur : échec de récupération du fichier « mingw-w64-x86_64-perl-5.20.2-1-any.pkg.tar.xz » depuis downloads.sourceforge.net : The requested URL returned error: 404
avertissement : erreur lors de la récupération de certains fichiers
erreur : la validation de la transaction a échoué (erreur non prévue)
Des erreurs se sont produites, aucun paquet n’a été mis à jour.

[Alexx83]

Are you update pacman databases before installing packages?
Do you read our wiki? Page for installing/updating packages: https://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/MSYS2%20installation/

[Jean-Christophe FRISCH]

The actual version of Mingw/PERL in the available packages is 5.22.0, not 5.20.2.

[Jean-Christophe FRISCH]

I've updated the database after the first install, some weeks ago, but not recently. Maybe, and this is only an advice and if that's under your control, you could add this hint message when a package is not found "dude, have you updated your package database?", it will help beginners with MSYS2 and with Linux.

Update done and package now found. Sorry for the inconvenience (and link bookmarked).