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Date:      Tue, 9 Jul 2013 11:56:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu>
To:        feld@feld.me
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: perl upgrade woes -- how to best reconcile?
Message-ID:  <201307091556.r69FuRnq026880@hergotha.csail.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <op.wzyd6vkx34t2sn@markf.office.supranet.net>
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In article <op.wzyd6vkx34t2sn@markf.office.supranet.net>, feld@feld.me writes:

>I've had zero problems with upgrades to Perl, etc after I stopped  
>compiling my packages in the host OS and started building the packages via  
>poudriere and using pkgng (sysutils/pkg). pkg can detect when a perl  
>upgrade is happening and is intelligent enough to reinstall all programs  
>that require perl; poudriere is smart enough to rebuild and repackage them  
>all. It's a match made in heaven and dead simple to use.

This.

-GAWollman




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