Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 23:43:56 -0700 From: "whitevamp" <whitevamp47@hotmail.com> To: "Nikolas Britton" <freebsd@nbritton.org>, "Pierre LeBlanc" <pierre@greenkangaroo.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about ports Message-ID: <BAY2-DAV7kiyPoHZgzD00001860@hotmail.com> References: <20041006173832.M93611@greenkangaroo.org> <41648ACE.50203@nbritton.org>
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when u upgrade perl to a newer ver useing the ports tree its quit simple . at the end of it installing it tell you that if u whant to use that version u need to use this command onley once though use.perl port and then u also need to read README in the bas dir of the ports tree IE: /usr/ports/UPDATING in there it talks about getting all the perl progs switched over to the newer ver of perl and thats it.. or at least that worked 4 me PS: you might whant to look at /usr/ports/UPDATING before you go and install perl ..thats a good file to read after u cvsup your tree ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nikolas Britton" <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: "Pierre LeBlanc" <pierre@greenkangaroo.org> Cc: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>; <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 5:16 PM Subject: Re: Question about ports > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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