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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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