Perl 5.8.6 upgrade

[Anton Berezin]

On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 03:37:12PM +0300, A K wrote:
> * Daren Desjardins <desjardins at canada.com> [Wed, 02 Feb 2005 10:37:23
> -0500]:
> > 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?
> 
> You can copy `5.8.5' dirs under /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl to
> `5.8.6' (or add 5.8.5 to PERL5LIB) as a desperate measure but that is
> not supported and will probably break some modules.

Actually, this should work just fine, if at the same time the
corresponding /var/db/pkg/ entries are modified accordingly, and all
relevant scripts in LOCALBASE/bin and X11BASE/bin have their shebangs
modified.

mat and I discussed a possibility of making such tool yesterday.  This
can be done, and it will probably make 99% of all minor version upgrades
as painless as it can get.

\Anton.
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