From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 12 12:39:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2266116A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:39:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9635743D2D for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:39:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from [207.41.94.233] (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i3CJcs8a009538; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:38:54 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:39:01 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <20040412183038.GA68839@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040412183038.GA68839@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200404121239.01356.kstewart@owt.com> cc: scuba@centroin.com.br Subject: Re: Step-by-step to upgrade Perl X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 19:39:13 -0000 On Monday 12 April 2004 11:30 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 01:30:37PM -0300, scuba@centroin.com.br wrote: > > I'd like to upgrad Perl to 5.8 using ports on FreeBSD 4.7, but > > how to do that in order to completely overwrite the old version > > (5.5.3). Which is the correct steps to upgrade Perl? > > No -- it's a lot easier than you seem to think. > > i) Install the perl5.8 port: > > # portinstall lang/perl5.8 > > - or - > > # cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8 > # make install > > ii) Set the new version of perl to be the default. (This also turns > off building perl as part of the base system): > > # use.perl port > > iii) Re-install any 3rd party modules, etc that you've installed so > the new perl can access them. There should be a neater way of > doing this... > > # find /usr/local/lib/perl5/{site_perl/5.005,5.00503} -type f > -print0 | \ xargs -0 -n 1 pkg_which | sort -u > /tmp/perl-ports # vi > perl-ports > > [ Sanity check the results: take out any non-ports (like > '?'), ports that are now bundled with perl or that you no > longer wish to have installed ] > > # portupgrade -f `cat /tmp/perl-ports` > > Et voila. New version of perl installed and ready to go. > There is one group that doesn't appear. All of the versions of automake use perl and have the version to use as the 1st line. You need to portupgrade -f automake to get things ready for your new version of perl. FWIW, I am using perl-5.8.2_5 There should be some sort of USE_PERL in their makefiles but isn't there. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html