Updated perl - broke stuff

[Dick Hoogendijk]

On 13 Feb Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 08:35:06PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> > --On Sunday, February 13, 2005 5:18 PM -0500 Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >Did you read /usr/ports/UPDATING?  It contains a suggestion for how to
> > >update the Perl ports which might have helped...
> > >
> > Well, no.  Why on earth would I do *that*?  ;-)
> > 
> > (Thanks for the tip.  I ran it.)  I wonder why the perl port doesn't 
> > include  this command in a post-install script?
> 
> It's a once-off change needed when updating from an older version, and
> the post-install script (or any other part of the port build) doesn't
> know that this is what is happening.

Meaning I don't run this update script when updating perl from say
"5.8.5" to "5.8.6" ?
That all I have to do then is run "use.perl ports" ?

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