Can I resume the perl upgrade?
Paul Schmehl
pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com
Fri Apr 10 18:20:31 UTC 2009
--On Friday, April 10, 2009 11:17:00 -0500 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?
Let me rephrase. I don't see a way in portupgrade to start over where I left
off. However, pkg_info -R lang/perl* shows that all my ports depend on 5.10
and no ports are still depending upon 5.8. Is it safe to assume that the
reboot happened after portupgrade had finished?
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