Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 16:53:18 +0300 From: A K <kkapp@rambler.ru> To: Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Daren Desjardins <desjardins@canada.com> Subject: Re: Perl 5.8.6 upgrade Message-ID: <1004303803.1107525198.147315880.81488@mcgi2.rambler.ru> In-Reply-To: <20050203124845.GD15084@heechee.tobez.org> References: <4200F3B3.7050706@canada.com> <813911377.1107434232.147437664.80111@mcgi2.rambler.ru> <20050203124845.GD15084@heechee.tobez.org>
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* Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.org> [Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:48:45 +0100]: > > > 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. > Actually, this should work just fine, if at the same time the > corresponding /var/db/pkg/ entries are modified accordingly, and all > relevant scripts in LOCALBASE/bin and X11BASE/bin have their shebangs > modified. And user is warned that XS modules can break :) Anyway, your `after upgrade' script looks like a huge step forward, thanks a lot! -- A K.
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