FreeBSD Port: perl5.8-5.8.6_2

[Anton Berezin]

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.
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