Update module ports after Perl upgrade?

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Jim Flowers" <jflowers at ezo.net> writes:

> I just upgraded to perl-5.8.1 on my FreeBSD 4.9R system (5.8.0 threw an error 
> on shared.bs) but after I had installed mysql-server which builds p5-DBI-137-
> 1.37 and p5-DBD-mysql-2.1026_1 as dependencies.
> 
> In the past I have uninstalled perl modules and reinstalled them to get them 
> in the right place to use with the upgraded perl version but it seems a bit 
> hit-or-miss on establishing the new dependencies.
> 
> What is the right, or at least preferred, way to do this?

Update again; there was a bug in the 5.8.1 release of perl.

In general, I think that you won't need to update your modules, but
things aren't guaranteed to work if you don't.