UPDATING - perl

Kent Stewart kstewart at owt.com
Sun May 2 18:55:45 PDT 2004


On Sunday 02 May 2004 04:39 pm, Tuc wrote:
> > On Sunday 02 May 2004 04:25 pm, Tuc wrote:
> > > > cvsup ports-all first?
> > >
> > > 	Done. Did it just before I started.
> >
> > I think you need to run "use.perl port" before you update your p5-*
>
> 	Thats what I wondered, how they were getting around that part.
> Thought maybe the way the portupgrade was done it somehow might have
> gotten around it or done it on its own or something.

What I see is a link to the current version and I run use.perl port 
after every update of perl.

>
> 	Ok, after I do that, it doesn't seem to want to load 5.6.1 anymore.
>
> 	Besides a p5 module, is there other commands I should run to update
> other things that depend on perl? (I wanted this mainly for the perl
> part of GAIM).
>


portupgrade -f  automake

It has the current version of perl as the first line of code.

Kent

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