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[Mathieu Arnold]

+--On 14 septembre 2015 11:34:40 -0400 "Philip M. Gollucci"
<pgollucci at p6m7g8.com> wrote:
| On Monday, September 14, 2015, Adam Weinberger <adamw at adamw.org> wrote:
| 
|> > On 14 Sep, 2015, at 6:19, Mathieu Arnold <mat at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
|> > 
|> > +20150914:
|> > +  AFFECTS: users of lang/perl5*
|> > +  AUTHOR: mat at FreeBSD.org
|> > +
|> > +  Binary package users can ignore this.
|> > +
|> > +  The way lang/perl5* ports install themselves has changed.  From now
|> on, only
|> > +  the default Perl version will install /usr/local/bin/perl.
|> > +
|> > +  If you are NOT using the default version of Perl (as of right now,
|> > it
|> is
|> > +  5.20) you MUST add a line setting the version you are using to your
|> > +  /etc/make.conf:
|> > +
|> > +  DEFAULT_VERSIONS+= perl5=5.xx
|> > +
|> > +  Especially, after this date, to migrate from one Perl version to the
|> other,
|> > +  you must first put the DEFAULT_VERSIONS line in your make.conf, and
|> then, for
|> > +  example, if you want to move from 5.20 to 5.22, do:
|> > +
|> > +     pkg set -o lang/perl5.20:lang/perl5.22
|> > +     portmaster `pkg shlib -qR libperl.so.5.20`
|> > +
|> > +  If you do not do that, you will replace your default Perl 5.20
|> installation
|> > +  (one that has /usr/local/bin/perl) to an installation that does not
|> have
|> > +  /usr/local/bin/perl, and it will break everything.
|> 
|> Mat, there is some critically confusing wording here. When you say
|> "default Perl version" it kindof implies lang/perl5.20 as that is the
|> default version of Perl. No part of the instructions says explicitly that
|> setting DEFAULT_VERSION= perl5=5.22 will make /usr/local/bin/perl come
|> back.
|> 
|> > From now on, only the default Perl version will install
|> /usr/local/bin/perl.
|> 
|> The way it's written now makes it sound like if you have anything but
|> 5.20 installed, /usr/local/bin/perl is going to disappear, which will
|> break every userland (non-ports) perl script.
|> 
|> I strongly recommend changing it to something like:
|>         From now on, only the default Perl port (currently 5.20), or the
|>         version listed in DEFAULT_VERSIONS, will install
|> /usr/local/bin/perl.
|> 
|> and later:
|>         you MUST add a line setting the version you are using to your
|>         /etc/make.conf, to preserve /usr/local/bin/perl:
|> 
| I agree.

Feel free to correct my english.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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