Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 18:12:15 +0200 From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie.le-hen@epita.fr> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading perl Message-ID: <20040614161215.GA26609@annelo.epita.fr> In-Reply-To: <40CDC77A.8090300@fer.hr> References: <40CDC77A.8090300@fer.hr>
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> The situation is: running 4-stable, with perl 5.6 from ports, with lots
> of packages which depend on it. Now I need to install an application
> that requires perl5.8!
>
> Is there a way to switch over to 5.8 without breaking everything? I'm
> asking this because I see two different ports in the tree: perl5, which
> installs 5.6 and perl5.8 which apparently has what I need, but
> portupgrade doesn't understand it (tries to upgrade 5.6 to a newer port
> revision).
>
> I tried installing the perl5.8 port (which gets me three versions of
> perl installed, *sigh*), but existing applications couldn't find needed
> modules.
You may want to read /usr/ports/UPDATING, especially entry 20040204. I
think this should help you in the upgrading process.
Regards,
--
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