Ports procedure when upgrading (e.g 6.1 >6.3)

[David Southwell]

On Sunday 13 July 2008 14:40:33 David Southwell wrote:
> On Sunday 13 July 2008 11:34:34 RW wrote:
> > On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:28:03 -0700
> >
> > David Southwell <david at vizion2000.net> wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I have just upgraded a system from 6.1 to 6.3 on an amd64 system and
> > > ran across some problems with installed ports that would not work on
> > > the upgraded system without some careful attention.
> >
> > Unless you cross a major version change, there aren't normally any
> > problems with ports. If anything were anticipated, it would presumably
> > be documented in UPDATING.
> > _______________________________________________
>
> Nothing in Updating about the problem I had. I have emailed the maintainer
> with the necessary info.
>
> David
>
PS

Where should advice about any procedures that are necessary modify 
pre-installed ports after a system upgrade be placed??

Should such info be placed in:
 ports/UPDATING
 src/UPDATING
 src/SRC_UPDATING

David

PPS I cannot find any info about the perl cpan problem in any of those files.

David