Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 23:50:14 -0400 From: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl 5.6 vs Perl 5.8 (install) Message-ID: <40A441F6.30708@forrie.com> In-Reply-To: <20040514034757.GA36571@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <40A43E07.1020808@forrie.com> <20040514034757.GA36571@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Thanks Kris. Does the basic installation of 5.6 have any dependency modules? I hear there is a way with CPAN to port those over to a new perl installation. Kris Kennaway wrote: >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). >> >>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 > >
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