From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 7 03:41:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9173916A4CE; Sat, 7 Feb 2004 03:41:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from happygiraffe.net (happygiraffe.net [81.6.215.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52E3843D1D; Sat, 7 Feb 2004 03:41:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dom@happygiraffe.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.happygiraffe.net [127.0.0.1]) by happygiraffe.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF834B84F; Sat, 7 Feb 2004 11:41:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from happygiraffe.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ppe.happygiraffe.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 92568-01; Sat, 7 Feb 2004 11:41:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by happygiraffe.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1C869B83E; Sat, 7 Feb 2004 11:41:43 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 11:41:43 +0000 To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20040207114142.GA92548@ppe.happygiraffe.net> References: <1075880955.76993.54.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20040205185355.GA92331@eeyore.local.dohd.org> <20040206133401.GA53303@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040206133401.GA53303@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i From: dom@happygiraffe.net (Dominic Mitchell) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at happygiraffe.net cc: ports@freebsd.org cc: Mark Huizer cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: MAJOR changes to the ports system X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 11:41:45 -0000 On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 05:34:01AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 07:53:55PM +0100, Mark Huizer wrote: > > Did anyone ever create some kind of 'best practice' on how to upgrade > > ports' perl on a system? I see quite a lof dependencies, and the issue > > is/might be that files are installed in directories carrying the perl > > version number. > > What do people do to make this transition? upgrade perl and make a > > symlink? Upgrade perl and reinstall all ports? deinstall everything and > > reinstall? > > Add this to make.conf: > > PERL_VER=5.8.2 > PERL_VERSION=5.8.2 > PERL_ARCH=mach > NOPERL=yo > NO_PERL=yo > NO_PERL_WRAPPER=yo > > Remove old perl port, install perl 5.8, rebuild p5*, fix dependencies > with pkgdb -F. There's a couple of other bits that need upgrading along with Perl. The on that bit me last time was autoconf (or automake; can't remember). Every port that used autoconf failed with "can't find file", even though autoconf was present. A closer look showed that the hashbang line was pointing at the old no-longer-present Perl. -Dom