Perl upgrade question

[Robert Huff]

Dominic Fandrey writes:

>  > 	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?
>  

>  For portupgrade:
>  # find /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 -type f -exec pkg_info -W \{} \; | grep -Eo '[^ ]+$' | sort -u | xargs -o portupgrade -f
>  
>  Afterwards there shouldn't be anything left belonging to a package.

	Once I have done this - and it appears to run successfully - is
it safe to delete the 5.8.8 directories?


				Robert Huff