From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 14 11:24:08 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8C6816A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:24:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nagual.st (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [217.122.132.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 225A643D3F for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:24:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by nagual.st with local; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:24:07 +0100 Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:24:07 +0100 To: freebsd-questions Message-ID: <20050214112407.GB7268@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <200501271852.j0RIqQ9t010411@mp.cs.niu.edu> <44is5imspz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <04d201c51214$4bb07ab0$7702a8c0@officeeagle> <420FD249.4060408@mac.com> <2147483647.1108326906@[192.168.2.100]> <20050214023836.GA27431@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050214023836.GA27431@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i From: Dick Hoogendijk Subject: Re: Updated perl - broke stuff X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:24:09 -0000 On 13 Feb Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 08:35:06PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: > > --On Sunday, February 13, 2005 5:18 PM -0500 Chuck Swiger > > wrote: > > > > > >Did you read /usr/ports/UPDATING? It contains a suggestion for how to > > >update the Perl ports which might have helped... > > > > > Well, no. Why on earth would I do *that*? ;-) > > > > (Thanks for the tip. I ran it.) I wonder why the perl port doesn't > > include this command in a post-install script? > > It's a once-off change needed when updating from an older version, and > the post-install script (or any other part of the port build) doesn't > know that this is what is happening. Meaning I don't run this update script when updating perl from say "5.8.5" to "5.8.6" ? That all I have to do then is run "use.perl ports" ? -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11 ++ FreeBSD 5.3 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja