From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 7 06:44:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8941F16A4CE; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 06:44:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hotmail.com (bay2-dav7.bay2.hotmail.com [65.54.246.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7369443D1F; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 06:44:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from whitevamp47@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 23:44:02 -0700 Received: from 65.102.125.195 by BAY2-DAV7.phx.gbl with DAV; Thu, 07 Oct 2004 06:43:52 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [65.102.125.195] X-Originating-Email: [whitevamp47@hotmail.com] X-Sender: whitevamp47@hotmail.com From: "whitevamp" To: "Nikolas Britton" , "Pierre LeBlanc" References: <20041006173832.M93611@greenkangaroo.org> <41648ACE.50203@nbritton.org> Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 23:43:56 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Oct 2004 06:44:02.0221 (UTC) FILETIME=[08195DD0:01C4AC39] cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 06:44:02 -0000 when u upgrade perl to a newer ver useing the ports tree its quit simple . at the end of it installing it tell you that if u whant to use that version u need to use this command onley once though use.perl port and then u also need to read README in the bas dir of the ports tree IE: /usr/ports/UPDATING in there it talks about getting all the perl progs switched over to the newer ver of perl and thats it.. or at least that worked 4 me PS: you might whant to look at /usr/ports/UPDATING before you go and install perl ..thats a good file to read after u cvsup your tree ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Pierre LeBlanc" Cc: ; Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 5:16 PM Subject: Re: Question about ports > 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? > > > Well see... the thing is is that perl is part of the base system in 4.x > (and quasi-base in 5.x), FreeBSD is dependent on it. I like to know this > question too, what are the pros/cons and procedure for updating perl to > ether 5.6.x or 5.8.x > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >