From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 24 22:28:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA60516A4CE for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 22:28:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (relay03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.131.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42FB543D45 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 22:28:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drew@mykitchentable.net) Received: (qmail 31771 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2004 06:28:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blacklamb.mykitchentable.net) ([67.51.117.104]) (envelope-sender ) by relay03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (FrontierMTA 2.3.7c) with SMTP for ; 25 Mar 2004 06:28:57 -0000 Received: from mykitchentable.net (bigdaddy.mykitchentable.net [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29B3E3BF371 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 22:28:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <40627C26.5070605@mykitchentable.net> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 22:28:54 -0800 From: Drew Tomlinson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: FreeBSD Questions References: <4060DB5B.20305@mykitchentable.net> In-Reply-To: <4060DB5B.20305@mykitchentable.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: How To Upgrade to Perl 5.8 on 4.9 System? - SOLVED X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 06:28:58 -0000 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