From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 28 15:34:04 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41ECE106564A for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:34:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-announce@chthonic.com) Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (mx.freeshell.org [192.94.73.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08FE98FC13 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:34:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (IDENT:ja@sdf.lonestar.org [192.94.73.15]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o6SFKRrP017640 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:20:27 GMT Received: (from ja@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.14.4/8.12.8/Submit) id o6SFKRb3006313 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:20:27 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: sdf.lonestar.org: ja set sender to freebsd-announce@chthonic.com using -f Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:20:27 +0000 From: "J. Altman" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100728152026.GA19185@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Upgrading to 8.1; Perl; and libgcrypt X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-announce@chthonic.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:34:04 -0000 Greetings... I am looking at upgrading to 8.1 from 8.0 on an AMD64. As you know, Perl is now at 5.12 and requires a recursive dependency rebuild; and so does libgcrypt. This seems to be a rather extensive pair of updates. Perl, while (IIRC) it is in the base system, is being reported as needing an upgrade via portversion | grep '<'. I seem to recall something that makes me think I am wrong here...that it's not in the base system, maybe? Is libgcrypt, perhaps, part of the base system? I suspect not. I've read http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/relnotes.html and http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/relnotes-detailed.html and Perl 5.12 is not mentioned as a part of 8.1. Does this mean that an upgrade via /usr/src will not upgrade Perl to 5.12? I suspect it does mean that Perl will not be upgraded from 5.10; but I do hope that Perl will be upgraded to 5.12 via an update to /usr/src. I also can't remember if a recursive rebuild of all ports after an upgrade across releases was ever recommended. For some reason, I think I read that somewhere. My point with these questions is to move toward 8.1 in the most economical manner. Thanks for any help, and best regards, Joe