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[Adam Weinberger]

> On 14 Sep, 2015, at 9:51, Mathieu Arnold <mat at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> +--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

Done. Thanks, Mat.

I had a mini heart attack this morning thinking that /usr/local/bin/perl would only exist for 5.20 :-)

# Adam


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