Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:19:24 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl upgrade question Message-ID: <496FA85C.1010109@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <18798.24182.492454.229881@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <18798.1525.541314.409491@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <496E4525.8010500@bsdforen.de> <18798.24182.492454.229881@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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Robert Huff wrote:
> Dominic Fandrey writes:
>
>> > Having gotten that far, I've got 40+ files - or at
>> > least directories - in /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8. Most
>> > have the ".pm" extension, with a few ".so", ".bs", and ".packlist"
>> > thrown in. No ".ph"
>> > Am I in trouble? And if so, what next?
>>
>
>> For portupgrade:
>> # find /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 -type f -exec pkg_info -W \{} \; | grep -Eo '[^ ]+$' | sort -u | xargs -o portupgrade -f
>>
>> Afterwards there shouldn't be anything left belonging to a package.
>
> Once I have done this - and it appears to run successfully - is
> it safe to delete the 5.8.8 directories?
>
>
> Robert Huff
You should first check what is left there. There might be a whatis
file and a couple of empty directories. In that case it's safe to
delete the stuff. If there's any more there, it depends on your
own judgement, or ask someone about it.
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