How To Upgrade to Perl 5.8 on 4.9 System? - SOLVED

[Drew Tomlinson]

Drew Tomlinson told a big fish story including the following on 
03/23/2004 4:50 PM:

> I'm using 4.9-RELEASE.  Is is possible to upgrade Perl from the 
> default 5.005 version to 5.8.2?  I've searched Google but was unable 
> to find anything definitive.  Are there any steps required beyond 
> installing the port?  I saw a response by Kris Kennaway regarding 
> -CURRENT 
> (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-February/020645.html). 
>  But if one follows the thread there are some conflicting posts so I 
> remain confused.

Thanks to all that replied.  I performed the following steps:

1.  I ran this command as suggested by Mathew Seaman to obtain a list of 
ports to reinstall after the upgrade.
    % find /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/ \
            -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 pkg_which | sort -u

2.  I used portupgrade to install lang/perl5.8

3.  Per the instructions in the port, I ran 'use.perl port'.  This seems 
to append some lines to /etc/make.conf , presumably to tell future ports 
that version 5.8.2 should be used.

Everything seems to be working fine!  Thanks to everyone for their help.

Drew