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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 04:00:55 -0600
From: Matthew Vooght <matthew.vooght@usask.ca>
Subject: Re: Upgrading Perl... Somebody just shoot me and put me out of my
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On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 12:25:26AM -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> pkg_info says that at present I have perl5.14-5.14.4_3 installed.  So excuse
> my french, but why the fuck didn't the command:
> 
>    portupgrade -o lang/perl5.16 -f perl-5.14.\*
> 
> actually *DO* anything?

Wouldn't the pattern "perl-5.14.\*" fail to match your package
"perl5.14-5.14.4_3"?