From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 20 18:26:31 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0A6F106564A for ; Fri, 20 May 2011 18:26:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from henk@signature.nl) Received: from dee.signature.nl (dee.signature.nl [81.18.162.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 925AD8FC13 for ; Fri, 20 May 2011 18:26:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by dee.signature.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9D09014E372; Fri, 20 May 2011 20:11:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dee.signature.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99FDA14DE66; Fri, 20 May 2011 20:11:26 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 20:11:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Henk van Oers To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20110519120031.59C2A1065678@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: References: <20110519120031.59C2A1065678@hub.freebsd.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Cc: rotkaps_spam_trap@gmx.de Subject: Re: New perl, why not: perl-after-upgrade (Heino Tiedemann) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 18:26:31 -0000 Please join perl@freebsd.org On Thu, 19 May 2011, freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org wrote: > Today's Topics: > 19. New perl, why not: perl-after-upgrade (Heino Tiedemann) > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 19 > Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 10:30:13 +0200 > From: Heino Tiedemann > Subject: New perl, why not: perl-after-upgrade > To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hi, > > Is there e reason why in ports/UPDATING is this mentioned: > > ,----[ 20110517 ] > | 0) Fix pkgdb.db (for safety): pkgdb -Ff > | 1) Reinstall new version of Perl (5.14): env DISABLE_CONFLICTS=1 portupgrade ... > | 2) Reinstall everything that depends on Perl: ... > `---- > > > and not this: > > ,----[ man perl-after-upgrade ] > | The standard procedure after a perl port (lang/perl5.X) upgrade is to > | basically reinstall all other packages that depend on perl. This is > | always a painful exercise. The perl-after-upgrade utility makes this > | process mostly unnecessary. > `---- > > > Heino