Can I resume the perl upgrade?

Brian Whalen brian at brianwhalen.net
Fri Apr 10 17:58:24 UTC 2009


RW wrote:
> 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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I was just noticing that, step 3 reinstalls perl 5.10 again.

Brian


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