Perl port to select in make.conf

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On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 23:01:48 +0400 (MSK)
Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Sep 2013, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> 
> > Приветствую, Дмитрий -- давно не виделись, ;-)
> 
> sme here ;)
> 
> > > which variable should be defined in make.conf to switch from
> > > current 5.14 to, say, 5.16 (for poudriere package building)? 
> > > 
> > > Naive 
> > > 
> > > PERL_VER=5.16
> > > 
> > > does not seem to work, and I want to not chase minor version
> > > changes.
> > 
> > I use PERL_VERSION=5.16.3.
> 
> It definitely works, but will stop with 5.16 upgrade; that is the
> situation to avoid.

If you mean it will stop 5.16.3 being upgraded to 5.16.4, it wont
(unless there's something specific in the way poudriere handles perl). 

When you install perl (as part of an upgrade or as a dependency) it
writes the new PERL_VERSION into make.conf.