synth: migrate from perl 5.20 to 5.24

Sergei Vyshenski s.vyshenski at gmail.com
Sat Nov 5 09:37:30 UTC 2016


For me the following worked.

To migrate from perl 5.20 to perl 5.24 with synth you need:

1. add to /etc/make.conf:

DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=  perl5=5.24

2. run:

synth upgrade-system

3. if you had a brute-force abort of synth in your pre-history, you 
might need to run the previous command twice.


On 04.11.2016 1:54, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> Le 03/11/2016 à 20:54, Sergei Vyshenski a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible to migrate from perl 5.20 to perl 5.24 with synth?
>>
>> If not, will it spoil future synth upgrades, if I do this migration
>> with portupgrade or portmaster as prescribed in /usr/ports/UPDATING ?
>
> I have no idea how synth works, you should ask the people writing it.
>
>


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