From owner-freebsd-small Thu Apr 5 16:46:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from home.offwhite.net (home.offwhite.net [156.46.35.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED83437B42C for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 16:46:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brennan@offwhite.net) Received: from localhost (brennan@localhost) by home.offwhite.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f35NhXG91800; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 18:43:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brennan@offwhite.net) Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 18:43:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Brennan Stehling To: Josef Karthauser Cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WindRiver takeover. In-Reply-To: <20010405104816.D746@tao.org.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Could you tell me which perl utilities that the base FreeBSD install are cuased to break when perl is upgraded to 5.6? The one language that I know very well is perl and I may be able to fix the scripts that break, or replace them with new scripts which do the same thing. I would be wary to install this on my live server but I do have a FreeBSD box at home which dual boots with windows so I can play games. I could do the fixes on there and then work with one of the usual FreeBSD developers to come up with a way to get Perl 5.6 to install safely. I have never messed with a port before, so I would have to learn a little about that process. Brennan Stehling - software developer and system administrator my projects: home.offwhite.net (free personal hosting) www.greasydaemon.com (bsd search) On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:58:49PM -0500, Brennan Stehling wrote: > > It is an interesting time for FreeBSD. Perhaps it is a good time for me > > to branch off my own version and call it BrennanBSD... and in 5 years the > > motto could be... > > > > "5 years without any source code changes" > > > > I think FreeBSD 4.2 is very solid and very close to perfect. The OpenSSH > > and OpenSSL integration along with several of the VM optimizations make > > me quite happy to run it on the systems I manage. I read that Perl 5.6 is > > going to be the default perl for 4.3 RELEASE and perhaps that is enough to > > get me to upgrade, but I would hate to reboot my personal server. > > No this isn't the case, 5.5.3 is still in -stable, there is development > work going on in this area though. > > genesis% perl -V > Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration: > > There is a perl5.6 port now: > > cvs log -rHEAD /usr/ports/lang/perl5/Makefile > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > revision 1.36 > date: 2001/03/22 15:17:46; author: markm; state: Exp; lines: +67 -51 > Upgrade this to perl5.6.0 for _knowledgeable_ folks in STABLE who > really want it. > > This is still marked FORBIDDEN as there may be all sorts of horrible > incompatabilities with the perl5 in "base", but folks who are willing > to override this and experiment are welcome. > > Consider this to be only partially supported. I'll happily commit > patches and fixes, but I don't want to answer too many questions. > > Sorry! > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > Joe > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message