From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 13 20:48:09 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 A368E16A4CE for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 20:48:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A51843D3F for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 20:48:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (93eb511cb2b21944bcbb8f055ea00ac7@adsl-67-115-73-128.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [67.115.73.128])i4E3lwGp029231; Thu, 13 May 2004 22:47:58 -0500 (CDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E888B51BB5; Thu, 13 May 2004 20:47:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 20:47:57 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Forrest Aldrich Message-ID: <20040514034757.GA36571@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <40A43E07.1020808@forrie.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40A43E07.1020808@forrie.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl 5.6 vs Perl 5.8 (install) 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: Fri, 14 May 2004 03:48:09 -0000 --5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:33:27PM -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > I have FreeBSD-CURRENT installed and it places Perl-5.6 on the system. > > It's not clear to me whether it's safe to pkg_delete this in favor of > Perl-5.8 (which I want to install). I tried searching the list archive > and didn't find anything (yet). >=20 > Anyone accomplish this? Yes, this is safe. You just have to reinstall any perl modules that were built against perl 5.6, since they will stop working when you remove perl 5.6. Kris --5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFApEFtWry0BWjoQKURAtX9AJ9KlMbngkM6MVVk0xpoRdK1C+lWSwCgs20N g4RWCTom+X6VpcFkZyh0Udo= =Kz8U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP--