Perl 5.8.6 upgrade

Anton Berezin tobez at FreeBSD.org
Wed Feb 2 07:37:46 PST 2005


On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:37:23AM -0500, Daren Desjardins wrote:
> Yesterday a perl update was released moving it to 5.8.6. According to 
> the UPDATING file all perl related ports will need to be rebuilt. We 
> have a number of desktop machines and a quick check showed that this 
> would result in having to rebuild a minimum of 88 ports.
> 
> How necessary is it to rebuild all perl ports?

Should you decide to upgrade to 5.8.6, it is necessary.

\Anton.
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