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Date:      Tue, 11 Sep 2001 01:08:35 -0400
From:      parv <parv_@yahoo.com>
To:        Brennan Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Guide to migrating from perl5.005->perl5.6?
Message-ID:  <20010911010835.A22298@moo.holy.cow>
In-Reply-To: <20010910215933.D99724-100000@home.offwhite.net>; from brennan@offwhite.net on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:17:53PM -0500
References:  <20010727142041.F5445-100000@mail1.hub.org> <20010910215933.D99724-100000@home.offwhite.net>

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this was, on the fateful occasion around Sep 10 23:17 -0400,
sent by Brennan Stehling                                             
>
> Marc,
> 
> Did you ever get a reply on this question?  I am also looking to upgrade
> to 5.6 as I am unable to upgrade or install various CPAN modules which
> want a more recent version.
> 
> Brennan Stehling - software developer and system administrator
> 
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 
> >
> > Running a 4.3-STABLE system,client is asking for Perl5.6 ...
> >
> > I've tried to install from ports, which gives me errors due to Perl5
> > already being part of the system ... comment out relevant portions, and I
> > can get it to build and install, but in /usr/local ...
> >
> > is there a way I can get rid of 5.005 and replace it with perl5.6, without
> > having to wait for the MFC to happen?

brennan, if you  actually want to replace 5.005 files w/ 5.6 ones, you
should ignore the rest of the message. otherwise...

...if you just need 5.6 version, you can install the new version, after
uncommenting the lines as suggested in mailing list(s) and the perl 
makefile, w/o damaging anything.

after installing perl 5.6, you may want to symlink perl counterparts 
found in /usr/bin to those in /usr/local/bin; add "NO_PERL=YES" in 
/etc/make.conf so that when you install world again, those symlinks 
don't get overwritten. and as a side effect, save some time & energy.

anyway, i am using the new version w/o any problems since i 
installed; here is what i have (along w/ other un-symlinked old files)...

$ gnuls -lFh  /usr/bin/perl* /usr/local/bin/perl*
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root     wheel          19 Aug 20 00:57 /usr/bin/perl -> /usr/local/bin/perl*
-r-xr-xr-x   3 root     wheel         10k Aug 15 23:28 /usr/bin/perl.old*
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root     wheel          20 Aug 20 00:57 /usr/bin/perl5 -> /usr/local/bin/perl5*
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root     wheel          24 Aug 20 00:58 /usr/bin/perl5.00503 -> /usr/local/bin/perl5.6.1*
-r-xr-xr-x   3 root     wheel         10k Aug 15 23:28 /usr/bin/perl5.00503.old*
-r-xr-xr-x   3 root     wheel         10k Aug 15 23:28 /usr/bin/perl5.old*
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root     wheel          22 Aug 20 00:57 /usr/bin/perlbug -> /usr/local/bin/perlbug*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     wheel         31k Jul 18 04:24 /usr/bin/perlbug.old*
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root     wheel          21 Aug 20 00:57 /usr/bin/perlcc -> /usr/local/bin/perlcc*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     wheel         26k May 17  1999 /usr/bin/perlcc.old*
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root     wheel          22 Aug 20 00:57 /usr/bin/perldoc -> /usr/local/bin/perldoc*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     wheel         16k May 17  1999 /usr/bin/perldoc.old*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     wheel        693k Aug 19 23:19 /usr/local/bin/perl*
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root     wheel          19 Aug 19 23:19 /usr/local/bin/perl5 -> /usr/local/bin/perl*
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root     wheel          19 Aug 19 23:19 /usr/local/bin/perl5.6.1 -> /usr/local/bin/perl*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     wheel         35k Aug 19 23:17 /usr/local/bin/perlbug*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     wheel         16k Aug 19 23:17 /usr/local/bin/perlcc*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     wheel         22k Aug 19 23:17 /usr/local/bin/perldoc*


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