Step-by-step to upgrade Perl

[scuba at centroin.com.br]

Hi,

	Thank to all of you for the help.

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Kent Stewart wrote:

|On Monday 12 April 2004 11:30 am, Matthew Seaman wrote:
|> On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 01:30:37PM -0300, scuba at centroin.com.br wrote:
|> > 	I'd like to upgrad Perl to 5.8 using ports on FreeBSD 4.7, but
|> > how to do that in order to completely overwrite the old version
|> > (5.5.3). Which is the correct steps to upgrade Perl?
|>
|> No -- it's a lot easier than you seem to think.
|>
|>    i) Install the perl5.8 port:
|>
|>         # portinstall lang/perl5.8
|>
|>        - or -
|>
|>         # cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8
|>         # make install
|>
|>   ii) Set the new version of perl to be the default. (This also turns
|>       off building perl as part of the base system):
|>
|>         # use.perl port
|>
|>  iii) Re-install any 3rd party modules, etc that you've installed so
|>       the new perl can access them.  There should be a neater way of
|>       doing this...
|>
|>         # find /usr/local/lib/perl5/{site_perl/5.005,5.00503} -type f
|> -print0 | \ xargs -0 -n 1 pkg_which | sort -u > /tmp/perl-ports # vi
|> perl-ports
|>
|>           [ Sanity check the results: take out any non-ports (like
|>            '?'), ports that are now bundled with perl or that you no
|> longer wish to have installed ]
|>
|>         # portupgrade -f `cat /tmp/perl-ports`
|>
|> Et voila.  New version of perl installed and ready to go.
|>
|
|There is one group that doesn't appear. All of the versions of automake
|use perl and have the version to use as the 1st line. You need to
|portupgrade -f automake
|to get things ready for your new version of perl. FWIW, I am using
|perl-5.8.2_5
|
|There should be some sort of USE_PERL in their makefiles but isn't
|there.
|
|Kent
|
|--
|Kent Stewart
|Richland, WA
|
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- Marcelo