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On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 07:03:32 -0600
ajtiM <lumiwa@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> My system: FreeBSD 8.1
> 
> I like to update perl to higher version and I don't want to screw
> up... I red /usr/ports/UPDATING:
> 
> "perl-after-upgrade" script supplied with lang/perl5.12
> 
> If I update to perl 5.12.3 is it enough that I run above script,
> please? In /etc/make.conf I have:
> # added by use.perl 2010-11-05
> 17:40:46 PERL_VERSION=5.8.9                       
> 
> I have above from version 8.0. Do I need to change version from 5.8.9
> to 5.12 or to 5.12.3?
> 


In UPDATING it also says:

"  If you want to switch to lang/perl5.12 from lang/perl5.{8,10} please
  follow instructions in the entry 20100715 in this file."


Note that 5.8.9 is built out of a different port to 5.12.3