Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 19:16:14 -0500 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: Pierre LeBlanc <pierre@greenkangaroo.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about ports Message-ID: <41648ACE.50203@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <20041006173832.M93611@greenkangaroo.org> References: <20041006173832.M93611@greenkangaroo.org>
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Pierre LeBlanc wrote: >Hello, > >I'm new to the port collection and updating ports with CVSup but I managed to >update the ports of my FreeBSD 4.10 system using CVSup. > >Now, I want to upgrade Perl to version 5.6 and I notice there is a perl5 port >in the list I`ve seen on: > >ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.10-release/ > >But this port is not on my system and to understand how to get perl5 in my >port collection, I searched on the Internet for several hours without success. > >Can you refer me a specific page or a chapter in the FreeBSD manual that >describe how to do it? > Well see... the thing is is that perl is part of the base system in 4.x (and quasi-base in 5.x), FreeBSD is dependent on it. I like to know this question too, what are the pros/cons and procedure for updating perl to ether 5.6.x or 5.8.x
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