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From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
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Subject: Re: perl-after-upgrade
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--On Thursday, July 07, 2005 14:39:44 -0400 Bob Hall <rjhjr@cox.net> wrote:
>
> As I stated above, I used portupgrade. That means that any messages at
> the end of the perl upgrade scrolled off the screen and out of the
> screen buffer when portupgrade carried out the next install. One of the
> problems with portupgrade is that you rarely see the post-upgrade
> messages when you do batch upgrades.
>
That's an easily solved problem.  After you finish portupgrade, view the 
pkg-message file in any port you have a question about.  E.g. % view 
/usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/pkg-message

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