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Date:      Thu, 7 Jul 2005 16:51:27 -0400
From:      Bob Hall <rjhjr@cox.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: perl-after-upgrade
Message-ID:  <20050707205127.GB86220@kongemord.krig.net>
In-Reply-To: <C3CA4E0CD9972E934C63D1A6@utd59514.utdallas.edu>
References:  <20050706191003.GA79388@kongemord.krig.net> <42CD5E9E.7040904@acm.org> <20050707183944.GA85644@kongemord.krig.net> <C3CA4E0CD9972E934C63D1A6@utd59514.utdallas.edu>

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On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:53:48PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --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

Aha. The instructions in the post-install message are not repeated in
the perldoc page. And the message does suggest using "rehash". Thanks.



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