Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 22:28:54 -0800 From: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How To Upgrade to Perl 5.8 on 4.9 System? - SOLVED Message-ID: <40627C26.5070605@mykitchentable.net> In-Reply-To: <4060DB5B.20305@mykitchentable.net> References: <4060DB5B.20305@mykitchentable.net>
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Drew Tomlinson told a big fish story including the following on 03/23/2004 4:50 PM: > I'm using 4.9-RELEASE. Is is possible to upgrade Perl from the > default 5.005 version to 5.8.2? I've searched Google but was unable > to find anything definitive. Are there any steps required beyond > installing the port? I saw a response by Kris Kennaway regarding > -CURRENT > (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-February/020645.html). > But if one follows the thread there are some conflicting posts so I > remain confused. Thanks to all that replied. I performed the following steps: 1. I ran this command as suggested by Mathew Seaman to obtain a list of ports to reinstall after the upgrade. % find /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/ \ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 pkg_which | sort -u 2. I used portupgrade to install lang/perl5.8 3. Per the instructions in the port, I ran 'use.perl port'. This seems to append some lines to /etc/make.conf , presumably to tell future ports that version 5.8.2 should be used. Everything seems to be working fine! Thanks to everyone for their help. Drew
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