From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 11 08:52:38 2003 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 CDCFD16A4CE for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:52:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from be-well.no-ip.com (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [66.30.200.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3107743FE5 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:52:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: by be-well.no-ip.com (Postfix, from userid 1147) id AD8A65D; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:52:37 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20031110125131.M9744@ezo.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 11 Nov 2003 11:52:37 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20031110125131.M9744@ezo.net> Message-ID: <44fzguc0fe.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Update module ports after Perl upgrade? 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: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 16:52:38 -0000 "Jim Flowers" writes: > I just upgraded to perl-5.8.1 on my FreeBSD 4.9R system (5.8.0 threw an error > on shared.bs) but after I had installed mysql-server which builds p5-DBI-137- > 1.37 and p5-DBD-mysql-2.1026_1 as dependencies. > > In the past I have uninstalled perl modules and reinstalled them to get them > in the right place to use with the upgraded perl version but it seems a bit > hit-or-miss on establishing the new dependencies. > > What is the right, or at least preferred, way to do this? Update again; there was a bug in the 5.8.1 release of perl. In general, I think that you won't need to update your modules, but things aren't guaranteed to work if you don't.