Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:02:01 +0000 (UTC) From: "Helmut Schneider" <jumper99@gmx.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to upgrade perl 5.8 to 5.10? Message-ID: <xn0gpddts8kyt3a00a@news.gmane.org> References: <xn0gpdade8ge98a006@news.gmane.org> <3f1fd1ea1001200529h5a0e41b9kda9fc62410c3daa@mail.gmail.com> <xn0gpdc2a8ip9ik009@news.gmane.org> <3f1fd1ea1001200639p1faa623tc9cb01da75c0781@mail.gmail.com>
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Michal Varga wrote:
> I'm not a heavy Perl user, but I don't remember anything ever melting
> "too much", while doing it this way. Of course, there are things like
> irssi, that break -every time- you reinstall Perl (even the same
> version), but one gets used to it quickly. Then there is the rest that
> probably only execs some scripts with Perl and doesn't care about your
> versions (much). Majority of your, or mine, installed ports have Perl
> only as an inherited dependency and never directly use it, so -af is a
> bit overkill in such cases, i mean:
>
> pkg_info | wc -l
> 805
Hell!
> So even when you're switching near-major versions, recompiling p5-*
> and maybe some of those in your list (I'd randomly pick, say amavisd,
> bsdpan- and razor) should be enough, the fallout will be minimal, if
> any (and if so, you just rebuild that one more that still fails).
> Nevertheless, your list in't that extensive, recompiling all of it
> shouldn't take more than half an hour, that's still a bit cheaper than
> -af :)
# pkg_info | wc -l
457
#
And this machine is even my package-building station!
Anyway, portupgrade -af took 45 minutes. *g*
# dmesg -a
[...]
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz (2500.10-MHz
K8-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x10676 Stepping = 6
Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE
,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
Features2=0xce3bd<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDC
M,DCA,SSE4.1>
AMD Features=0x20000800<SYSCALL,LM>
AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
TSC: P-state invariant
real memory = 8589934592 (8192 MB)
avail memory = 8256348160 (7873 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <IBM SERBLADE>
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 8 CPUs
FreeBSD/SMP: 2 package(s) x 4 core(s)
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