Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 15:30:44 -0700 From: Marcia Barrett Nice <mimerki@myrealbox.com> To: "Pierre LeBlanc" <pierre@greenkangaroo.org>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about ports Message-ID: <200410061530.44820.mimerki@myrealbox.com> In-Reply-To: <20041006173832.M93611@greenkangaroo.org> References: <20041006173832.M93611@greenkangaroo.org>
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On Wednesday 06 October 2004 01:38 pm, Pierre LeBlanc wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to the port collection and updating ports with CVSup but I managed > to update the ports of my FreeBSD 4.10 system using CVSup. > > Now, I want to upgrade Perl to version 5.6 and I notice there is a perl5 > port in the list I`ve seen on: > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.10-release/ > > But this port is not on my system and to understand how to get perl5 in my > port collection, I searched on the Internet for several hours without > success. > > Can you refer me a specific page or a chapter in the FreeBSD manual that > describe how to do it? > > Thank you, > > Pierre LeBlanc > I think you want to use cvs or cvsup to update your ports collection. The handbook page for cvsup is: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html After that, you may have to deinstall your current version of perl to get a newer one to install, but there I am not certain. As usual, -newbies isn't really the place to ask this. -questions is more appropriate and more likely to get you a valid answer. Marci
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