ports/183875: Fix UPDATING regarding using pkg to switch from 5.14 to 5.16

Brad Davis brd at FreeBSD.org
Mon Nov 11 22:50:00 UTC 2013


>Number:         183875
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Fix UPDATING regarding using pkg to switch from 5.14 to 5.16
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Nov 11 22:50:00 UTC 2013
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Brad Davis
>Release:        FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p7 i386
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>Fix:
	Partial fix to UPDATING, the bit about switching to binary packages should be flushed out more or removed

--- fix-perl-updating.diff begins here ---
Index: UPDATING
===================================================================
--- UPDATING	(revision 333537)
+++ UPDATING	(working copy)
@@ -67,12 +67,13 @@
   AUTHOR: mat at FreeBSD.org
 
   The default perl has been switched to lang/perl5.16. If you're using binary
-  packages, you need to do :
+  packages, you need to do:
 
   # pkg set -o lang/perl5.14:lang/perl5.16
+  # pkg install -Rf lang/perl5.16
 
   If you're not using binary packages and want to (and should) switch, if
-  you're using perl-5.14, for instance :
+  you're using perl-5.14, for instance:
 
   Portupgrade users:
     0) Fix pkgdb.db (for safety):
--- fix-perl-updating.diff ends here ---


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