From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 9 21:27:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7890037B400 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 21:27:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1405743E75 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 21:27:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parv@pair.com) Received: from sdn-ar-007dcwashp111.dialsprint.net ([63.178.91.71] helo=moo.holy.cow) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17dNqo-0007OK-00; Fri, 09 Aug 2002 21:27:43 -0700 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id EA8D850BA1; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 00:30:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 00:30:24 -0400 From: parv To: Ronneil Camara Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What do you think about STABLE? Message-ID: <20020810043024.GA63922@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Ronneil Camara , FreeBSD-STABLE@FreeBSD.org References: <200208100321.aa32703@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <20020810035015.17253.qmail@ns1.onie.yi.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020810035015.17253.qmail@ns1.onie.yi.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG in message <20020810035015.17253.qmail@ns1.onie.yi.org>, wrote Ronneil Camara thusly... > > Actually, the reason why I wanted to upgrade to 4.6-STABLE is > because the perl that comes with my 4.5-STABLE is only version > 5.005_03. if that's the only reason, why not install perl from the ports in /usr/ports/lang/perl5 (v5.6; there is also v5.8 in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8)? after installing ports tree -- see the freebsd handbook for details somewhere on freebsd.org website -- all you would have to do is type... # cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5 # { make && make test && make install } 2>&1 | tee log ...after that you may want to run files/use.perl, that will be mentioned at the end of the install, to create/fix symlinks to newer version. refer to -questions & -stable lists archives for issues related to perl from ports & perl from freebsd os. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message