Trouble Upgrading Ports

[Spadge]

Jeremy Messenger wrote:

> 
> Did you read in the /usr/ports/UPDATING?

Yes, I did, thanks.
> 
>> I once wrote a shell script to combat this sort of behaviour, as it 
>> is  something I have run up against time and time again with the perl5 
>> port.  It looks something like this (I fully expect my email to kill 
>> the  formatting of this, with like linewrap and everything, so beware):
> 
> 
> We have a tool for that, an answer is in the /usr/ports/UPDATING.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mezz

"If you want such packages to remain operational, you will have to 
reinstall then by hand or via portupgrade."

Not a bad argument for my script, as that is precisely what it does, 
albeit indiscriminately.

I'm not knocking your work at all, but IIRC I first wrote this script 
before perl-after-upgrade was included in the package. I got the xargs 
from UPDATING back when that was the advice given by the ports maintainers.

I also feel a bit funny sometimes about running a perl script to fix a 
broken perl install. Call me superstitious.

I'm *not* saying to anyone "don't use perl-after-upgrade". It's great, 
very useful, and I like it plenty. I am, however, offering up my 
homemade bash alternative for anyone who would prefer to use something 
more bashy than perl-after-upgrade. There's a lot of people out there 
who feel more at home editing a bash shell script than they do working 
their way through perl script.

Thanks for your earlier comments.

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