Can I resume the perl upgrade?
RW
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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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