From owner-freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 3 12:37:20 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1018316A4CF for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:37:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mcgi2.rambler.ru (mcgi2.rambler.ru [81.19.67.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D96CF43D46 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:37:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kkapp@rambler.ru) Received: from [81.19.65.30] by mcgi2.rambler.ru with HTTP (mailimap); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 15:37:12 +0300 From: A K To: Daren Desjardins Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 15:37:12 +0300 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1251" MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4200F3B3.7050706@canada.com> In-Reply-To: <4200F3B3.7050706@canada.com> Message-Id: <813911377.1107434232.147437664.80111@mcgi2.rambler.ru> Sender: A K cc: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org cc: tobez@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Perl 5.8.6 upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: maintainer of a number of perl-related ports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:37:20 -0000 * Daren Desjardins [Wed, 02 Feb 2005 10:37:23 -0500]: > Yesterday a perl update was released moving it to 5.8.6. According to > the UPDATING file all perl related ports will need to be rebuilt. We > have a number of desktop machines and a quick check showed that this > would result in having to rebuild a minimum of 88 ports. > > How necessary is it to rebuild all perl ports? You can copy `5.8.5' dirs under /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl to `5.8.6' (or add 5.8.5 to PERL5LIB) as a desperate measure but that is not supported and will probably break some modules. -- A K.