From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 1 22:11:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org 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 D203416A41F for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:11:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jorn@wcborstel.nl) Received: from post-25.mail.nl.demon.net (post-25.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7228343D45 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:11:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jorn@wcborstel.nl) Received: from wcborstel.demon.nl ([82.161.134.53]:20118 helo=[192.168.1.4]) by post-25.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1EAxHH-000CRp-1a; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 22:11:23 +0000 Message-ID: <43177C5A.4000107@wcborstel.nl> Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 00:10:34 +0200 From: Jorn Argelo User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Parv References: <4316BC23.9070409@wcborstel.nl> <20050901215851.GA4419@holestein.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20050901215851.GA4419@holestein.holy.cow> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, Zan Subject: Re: upgrading perl -ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 22:11:24 -0000 Parv wrote: >in message <4316BC23.9070409@wcborstel.nl>, wrote Jorn Argelo >thusly... > > >>About your problem, you should really recompile Perl from the >>ports-tree if you want to upgrade your Perl version. And after you >>did that, I always rebooted the machine. I don't know how it will >>function without rebooting the machine, or if it's even possible >>to upgrade Perl properly without a reboot. >> >> > >There is no reason to reboot just to upgrade perl "properly". >Rebooting does nothing in regard to upgrading perl, rather you just >cause inconvenience to yourself. > > > - Parv > > > Yes, I stand corrected. Which is why I mentioned that I didn't know for sure ;-) Jorn.