Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 19:58:58 +0200 From: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: Claus Guttesen <cguttesen@yahoo.dk> Subject: Re: perl 5.6 installed on beta 7 Message-ID: <20041006175858.GA5243@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <4164260B.8020107@FreeBSD.org> References: <20041005091939.20542.qmail@web14127.mail.yahoo.com> <4164260B.8020107@FreeBSD.org>
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> > > >Installed from a freshly baked amd64 beta7-iso-image. > >It installs fine, except that perl 5.6 gets installed. > > > >bente# pkg_info > >perl-5.6.1_15 Practical Extraction and Report > >Language > > > > On the miniinst ISO, only perl 5.8.5 exists. On the full disc1 ISO, > both 5.6.1 and 5.8.5 exist. It your choice as to which one you want to > install. I installed an i386 install, just a plain one without choosing any packages and also eneded up with perl 5.6.x. I thought that 5.8.x is the perl of the day for FreeBSD 5.3 and higher, so have expected that to be installed except if I specifically go and choose 5.6.x. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org
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