Can I resume the perl upgrade?
Jerry
gesbbb at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 10 17:18:36 UTC 2009
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:55:30 -0700
Brian Whalen <brian at brianwhalen.net> wrote:
>Paul Schmehl wrote:
>> According to /usr/ports/UPDATING, if you want to upgrade to
>> perl5.10, you do the following:
>>
>> Portupgrade users:
>> 0) Fix pkgdb.db (for safety):
>> pkgdb -Ff
>>
>> 1) Reinstall perl with new 5.10:
>> portupgrade -o lang/perl5.10 -f perl-5.8.\*
>>
>> 2) Reinstall everything that depends on Perl:
>> portupgrade -fr perl
>>
>> My machine got rebooted right in the middle of step 3. Is there a
>> way to resume where I left off? Or do I just start over?
>>
>What about perl-after-upgrade instead of step 3? I havent done this
>perl upgrade yet, but normally this is enough.
There was a posting about that. Apparently, the update to Perl5.10
requires a rebuild of all ports that depend on it. The
perl-after-upgrade script is not sufficient.
--
Jerry
gesbbb at yahoo.com
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have
forgotten your aim.
George Santayana
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