From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 23 09:27:20 2004 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 92F2B16A4CF for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:27:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta1.lbl.gov (mta1.lbl.gov [128.3.41.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BB3943D2F for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:27:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from KSBeattie@lbl.gov) Received: from mta1.lbl.gov (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mta1.lbl.gov (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i2NHRHOJ023959 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:27:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from lbl.gov ([64.163.210.98]) by mta1.lbl.gov (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i2NHRH7Q023952; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:27:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <40607374.3060300@lbl.gov> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:27:16 -0800 From: Keith Beattie User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joshua Lokken References: <405F9372.4050401@lbl.gov> <20040323163751.GA1856@cs025_2k> In-Reply-To: <20040323163751.GA1856@cs025_2k> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: To use.perl port or not? 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: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:27:20 -0000 On 3/23/2004 8:37 AM, Joshua Lokken wrote: >>So, does it seem reasonable that switching perl could have caused/solved >>this problem? How 'bleeding edge' is doing a 'use.perl port'? Is it >>something that indeed requires a large rebuild of one's system? If so, how >>does one go about finding the list of things which need to be rebuilt? > > /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade is a great tool for managing software > and dependencies. Install it, read the man pages, and do: > > portupgrade -rf perl > > That's if you're using perl from the ports collection. It will > rebuild all apps that require perl. Indeed it is a great tool, I use it nearly everyday. But in this case it seems to not help because the system perl (at least for 4.9) is not a port. So, it appears, ports that depend on the system perl - don't know it. When I run that command all that it does is reinstall the perl port. So I don't have any ports that depend on the new perl. But when I made the new perl the system perl (by running 'use.perl port') my system became unstable and running 'use.perl system' fixed it. Is this a known risk? ksb