Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 15:12:51 +0100 From: Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.org> To: Eliot Earle <sfromley@ntlworld.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: perl5.8-5.8.6_2 Message-ID: <20050205141251.GC8366@heechee.tobez.org> In-Reply-To: <4204C692.3060508@ntlworld.com> References: <4204C692.3060508@ntlworld.com>
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On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 01:13:54PM +0000, Eliot Earle wrote: > Hullo there Perl5.8 port maintainers. > > Further to your comments in /usr/ports/UPDATING, I thought I'd drop you > a line and tell you about the shell script I'd written to automate the > complete perl5.8 reinstall process. > > It's based around the pkg_info/xargs line you wrote, for which I thank > you, but uses the results in a way I found to be more robust here. > > Obviously, feel free to use it, pass it around, or bin it. Whichever you > think is the more appropriate. > > I have made an explanatory page at > http://wiki.cat5.org/index.php/perlfix or if you'd prefer something > curlable, just the script is at http://www.fromley.com/perlfix.txt This is absolutely cool, thank you! For those who do not with to reinstall everything, there is another, more adventurous way of doing it. Have a look at http://people.freebsd.org/~tobez/pau.html (documentation) http://people.freebsd.org/~tobez/perl-after-upgrade (download) Cheers, \Anton. -- The moronity of the universe is a monotonically increasing function. -- Jarkko Hietaniemi
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