Updated perl - broke stuff

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 12:24:07PM +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> 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" ?

No, that what I meant by "when updating from an older version".  When
perl changes from e.g. 5.8.6 to 5.8.6_1 (an internal port change that
doesn't change where the files are stored on disk) you don't need to
take special action.

Kris
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