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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!

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A K.