Updating ports perl from 5.8.0 to 5.8.1

[H.Wade Minter]

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On Nov 2, 2003, at 12:01 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

> H.Wade Minter <minter at lunenburg.org> writes:
>
>> I'd like to update my ports-installed version of Perl from 5.8.0 to
>> 5.8.1.  On my test system, I did a "portupgrade -rR perl", but it
>> didn't update any of my installed p5- modules, which caused breakage
>> until I reinstalled all of them by hand.
>>
>> Is there a better way to update Perl?  Would a "portupgrade -rRf" have
>> helped?
>
> Yes.  "portupgrade -rf perl" is *exactly* what the incantation I would
> have recommended.

That didn't seem to work.  I ran that on one system, and it only 
upgraded perl, it didn't attempt to do any of the p5-* packages.

- --Wade
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