Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 12:20:09 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> To: Jim Hatfield <subscriber@insignia.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Failures after upgrading perl Message-ID: <4209F1E9.2000701@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <dknj01hkh4vj7vqs0s9854nkdblhukhe7b@4ax.com> References: <dknj01hkh4vj7vqs0s9854nkdblhukhe7b@4ax.com>
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Jim Hatfield wrote:
> I have a 4.7-based system I use as a mail gateway. Yesterday I
> did a portupgrade of perl from 5.6.1 to 5.6.2. Today I find that
> I have no incoming mail, due to mimedefang no longer functioning:
>
>
> But pkg_info shows p5-MIME-Base64 as present!
> And it is, but not on any of the directories on the @INC path
> It seems to think it's dependent on perl 5.6.1, which isn't present,
> then wants to install 5.6.2, which is already installed.
>
> Do I have to remove and reinstall all the perl addons due to the
> upgrade of the perl version?
You should read UPDATING in your ports directory, there you'll find the
instructions on how to update perl:
20050201:
AFFECTS: users of lang/perl5 and lang/perl5.8
lang/perl5 has been updated to 5.6.2, and lang/perl5.8 has been
updated to 5.8.6. you should update everything depending on perl, that
is:
* first, upgrade your perl installation (use either lang/perl5 or
lang/perl5.8, the latter being recommended);
* for FreeBSD 4.X, run "use.perl port", so that the system knows you
have 5.8.6 or 5.6.2; this step is not needed on FreeBSD 5.X and
FreeBSD -CURRENT;
* run some magic incantations to upgrade all ports depending on perl,
that is run something like :
portupgrade -f `(pkg_info -R perl-5\* |tail +4; \
find /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.[68].[1245] -type f -print0 \
| xargs -0 pkg_which -fv | sed -e '/: ?/d' -e 's/.*: //')|sort -u`
This is likely to fail for a few ports, you'll have to upgrade them
afterwards by hand.
Cheers, Erik
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