Perl upgrade question

[Dominic Fandrey]

Robert Huff wrote:
> Dominic Fandrey writes:
> 
>>  > 	Having gotten that far, I've got 40+ files - or at
>>  > least directories - in /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8.  Most
>>  > have the ".pm" extension, with a few ".so", ".bs", and ".packlist"
>>  > thrown in.  No ".ph"
>>  > 	Am I in trouble?  And if so, what next?
>>  
> 
>>  For portupgrade:
>>  # find /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 -type f -exec pkg_info -W \{} \; | grep -Eo '[^ ]+$' | sort -u | xargs -o portupgrade -f
>>  
>>  Afterwards there shouldn't be anything left belonging to a package.
> 
> 	Once I have done this - and it appears to run successfully - is
> it safe to delete the 5.8.8 directories?
> 
> 
> 				Robert Huff

You should first check what is left there. There might be a whatis
file and a couple of empty directories. In that case it's safe to
delete the stuff. If there's any more there, it depends on your
own judgement, or ask someone about it.