From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 2 09:27:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 951F116A4CE for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 09:27:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from endif.cjb.net (65-101-229-205.dnvr.qwest.net [65.101.229.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 784BD43F75 for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 09:27:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from end@endif.cjb.net) Received: (qmail 92350 invoked from network); 2 Nov 2003 17:27:11 -0000 Received: from localhost (end@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Nov 2003 17:27:11 -0000 Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 10:27:11 -0700 From: Robin Schoonover To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20031102102711.00dba6eb.end@endif.cjb.net> In-Reply-To: <15057D63-0D58-11D8-B2CC-000A95A8D520@lunenburg.org> References: <8DA587DE-0D55-11D8-B2CC-000A95A8D520@lunenburg.org> <44brruwvq4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <15057D63-0D58-11D8-B2CC-000A95A8D520@lunenburg.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Updating ports perl from 5.8.0 to 5.8.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 17:27:05 -0000 On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 12:14:56 -0500, H.Wade Minter wrote: > > On Nov 2, 2003, at 12:01 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > > Yes. "portupgrade -rf perl" is *exactly* what the incantation I would > > have recommended. > > That didn't seem to work. I ran that on one system, and it only > upgraded perl, it didn't attempt to do any of the p5-* packages. > You could do: portupgrade -rf perl p5-\* I'd imagine -r would mean all p5-* packages are included (since they depend on perl), but obviously that wasn't the case. If the version of FreeBSD is 4.x, then that means there is a perl in the base system, and thus all the p5-* packages probably didn't have perl listed as one of their dependencies. -- Robin Schoonover (aka End) # # There are two kinds of adhesive tape: That which won't # stay on and that which won't come off.