svn commit: r396906 - head
Adam Weinberger
adamw at FreeBSD.org
Mon Sep 14 16:30:37 UTC 2015
Author: adamw
Date: Mon Sep 14 16:30:35 2015
New Revision: 396906
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/396906
Log:
Clarify the wording a bit to reinforce that setting perl5 in DEFAULT_VERSIONS
will preserve /usr/local/bin/perl. While here tighten up a few grammar nits.
Approved by: mat
Modified:
head/UPDATING
Modified: head/UPDATING
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--- head/UPDATING Mon Sep 14 16:17:23 2015 (r396905)
+++ head/UPDATING Mon Sep 14 16:30:35 2015 (r396906)
@@ -12,23 +12,24 @@ you update your ports collection, before
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.
+ the default Perl port (currently 5.20), or the version listed in
+ DEFAULT_VERSIONS, 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:
+ /etc/make.conf, to preserve /usr/local/bin/perl:
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:
+ 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
+ (one that has /usr/local/bin/perl) with an installation that does not have
/usr/local/bin/perl, and it will break everything.
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