HEADS UP: MAJOR changes to the ports system

[Dominic Mitchell]

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 01:26:52PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> dom at happygiraffe.net (Dominic Mitchell) writes:
> > There's a couple of other bits that need upgrading along with Perl.  The
> > on that bit me last time was autoconf (or automake; can't remember).
> > Every port that used autoconf failed with "can't find file", even though
> > autoconf was present.  A closer look showed that the hashbang line was
> > pointing at the old no-longer-present Perl.
> 
> that's why autoconf and automake register themselves as requiring
> perl, and pkg_delete won't allow you to deinstall perl without first
> deinstalling autoconf and automake, unless you force it to.

Yes, but I've managed to screw myself by portupgrade'ing perl and
forgetting to rebuild automake.  Of course the answer is to use
portupgrade -r, but I didn't think of that the first time.  :-)

-Dom