Can I resume the perl upgrade?

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Fri Apr 10 17:56:02 UTC 2009


On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:17:00 +0000
Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com> 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?
> 

Have portupgrade exclude the ports built after perl.

portupgrade -fr perl -x '>=perl'


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