Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 23:25:58 -0400 From: parv <parv_@yahoo.com> To: Christoph Sold <so@i-clue.de> Cc: Rob Hudson <rob@euglug.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Perl upgrade Message-ID: <20010819232558.A95933@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <3B6C424A.5E8C79C7@i-clue.de>; from so@i-clue.de on Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 08:43:22PM %2B0200 References: <20010803102720.C5515@cogit8.org> <3B6C424A.5E8C79C7@i-clue.de>
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this was, on the fateful occasion around Aug 04 14:43 -0400, sent by Christoph Sold > > Rob Hudson wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > What's the best way to upgrade the base perl installation from 5.005 > > to 5.6.1? Earlier, I installed 5.6.1 from CPAN without thinking too > > much about it. Now I have perl-5.005 as /usr/bin/perl, and perl-5.6.1 > > as /usr/local/bin/perl. Is this a good way? > > It's the default way. Perl 5.0x will still be the default system perl in > 4.4-Release. If you want to start developing with newer Perl versions, a > second installation will help the system to stay stable. > second installation of perl i suppose, not of freebsd w/ 'NOPERL=true', right? while we are on the subject, could the perl 5.005 files be deleted safely by parsing the (build|install)world logs? -- so, do you like word games or scrabble? - parv To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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