From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 4 13:10:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.cz (diana.mobil.cz [195.39.16.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D56137B419 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 13:10:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from ester.mobil.cz (ester.mobil.cz [194.213.62.23]) by mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g04LAT128449; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 22:10:29 +0100 Received: from roman.mobil.cz ([10.2.0.89]) by ester.mobil.cz (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.7) with ESMTP id 2002010422083474:4441 ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 22:08:34 +0100 Received: (from roman@localhost) by roman.mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g04LJjM89998; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 22:19:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from neuhauser@mobil.cz) X-Authentication-Warning: roman.mobil.cz: roman set sender to neuhauser@mobil.cz using -f Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 22:19:44 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: ttop13@attbi.com Cc: freebsd Subject: Re: upgrading perl 5.005 to 5.6.1 Message-ID: <20020104221944.H38258@roman.mobil.cz> Mail-Followup-To: ttop13@attbi.com, freebsd References: <20020104204759.CJDA20122.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@rwcrwbc55> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020104204759.CJDA20122.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@rwcrwbc55> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 01/04/2002 10:08:34 PM, Serialize by Router on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 01/04/2002 10:08:41 PM, Serialize complete at 01/04/2002 10:08:41 PM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: ttop13@attbi.com > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd), > Roman Neuhauser > Subject: Re: upgrading perl 5.005 to 5.6.1 > Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 20:47:58 +0000 > > I guess if I just installed 4.4-Release I'm not clear > why I need an update to ports. I take it for "it's not clear to me why I need" ... Well, the ports get updated just like the base system, and perl5 apparently left the "PROHIBITED" state after the 4.4 release. If you want perl-5.6 you need to update the port. > Oh well, I don't understand what "Configure cvsup, frob > a know in /etc/make.conf" That should've been "frob a knob". Sorry, I'm tired. And it means: isntall cvsup ), tweak the default ports-supfile, tweak /etc/make.conf to use cvsup for source/ports updates, and your done. > I know what cvs is (but not familiar with cvsup). I point your favorite HTML browser to /usr/share/doc/handbook/cvsup.html > It seems to me that this ports/package stuff with > FreeBSD was supposed to make it all much easier and take > care of the gory details for me. yes. and it's pretty good at that. -- FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE 9:58PM up 9 days, 8:36, 17 users, load averages: 0.08, 0.07, 0.03 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message