Perl upgrade question

Rainer Hurling rhurlin at gwdg.de
Wed Jan 14 07:42:16 PST 2009


Did you run 'perl-after-upgrade' (the script) twice, the second one with 
option -f ?

Rainer


On 14.01.2009 16:34 (UTC+1), Robert Huff wrote:
> 	The UPDATING entry says:
> 
> You should update everything depending on perl. The easiest way to
> do that is to use perl-after-upgrade script supplied with
> lang/perl5.8.
> 
> 	The man page says:
> 
>        o review the files left in the older perl installation.
>            This is typically /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.X.Y/.
>            There should be very little, if any, files in that
>            directory and its sub- directories, excepting a number of
>            .ph files;
> 
> 	Having gotten that far, I've got 40+ files - or at
> least directories - in /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8.  Most
> have the ".pm" extension, with a few ".so", ".bs", and ".packlist"
> thrown in.  No ".ph"
> 	Am I in trouble?  And if so, what next?
> 
> 	Respectfully,
> 
> 
> 				Robert Huff



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