Perl upgrade question

[Robert Huff]

Dominic Fandrey writes:

>  >>  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?
>  
>  You should first check what is left there. There might be a
>  whatis file and a couple of empty directories. In that case it's
>  safe to delete the stuff. If there's any more there, it depends
>  on your own judgement, or ask someone about it.

huff at jerusalem>> pwd
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8
huff at jerusalem>> find . -type f
./perl/man/whatis
./mach/perllocal.pod
./man/whatis

	What's a .pod?


					Robert Huff