Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 22:35:53 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: lang/perl5 rename Message-ID: <CA%2BtpaK3Q6EJU_pe9b9i%2Byp3s2raRs2Uuagejqym=QzoveeyszQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAPi0pss3oRJBbQdJPw4mKR2-fot=FsQ1Dwu6n-=yBpugvbT7GQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPi0pss3oRJBbQdJPw4mKR2-fot=FsQ1Dwu6n-=yBpugvbT7GQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Chris Stankevitz < chrisstankevitz@gmail.com> wrote: > According to /usr/ports/updating: > > If you are NOT using the default version of Perl (as of right now, it is > 5.20) you MUST add a line setting the version you are using to your > /etc/make.conf, to preserve /usr/local/bin/perl: > > DEFAULT_VERSIONS+= perl5=5.xx > > === > > Background info: > > I couldn't care less about Perl but apparently some of my packages > have installed it as a dependency. > > # pkg info | grep perl > perl5.16-5.16.3_22 Practical Extraction and Report Language > > === > > My question: > > 1. Am I using the default version of Perl? (Presumably I am not > because UPDATING says the default version is 5.20 while I have 5.16 > installed) > 5.16 was then the default at the time of your package install. Be careful to follow the rest of the UPDATING perl stuff as there are some significant changes. -- Adam
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