Can I resume the perl upgrade?

[David Southwell]

On Saturday 11 April 2009 17:20:56 Chris Rees wrote:
> 2009/4/11 David Southwell <david at vizion2000.net>:
> > On Friday 10 April 2009 11:43:33 kimelto at gmail.com wrote:
> >> Paul Schmehl wrote:
> >> > --On Friday, April 10, 2009 11:17:00 -0500 Paul Schmehl
> >> >
> >> > <pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com> wrote:
> >> >> According to /usr/ports/UPDATING, if you want to upgrade to perl5.10,
> >> >> you do
> >> >> the following:
> >> >>
> >> >> Portupgrade users:
> >> >>     0) Fix pkgdb.db (for safety):
> >> >>         pkgdb -Ff
> >> >>
> >> >>     1) Reinstall perl with new 5.10:
> >> >>         portupgrade -o lang/perl5.10 -f perl-5.8.\*
> >> >>
> >> >>     2) Reinstall everything that depends on Perl:
> >> >>         portupgrade -fr perl
> >> >>
> >> >> My machine got rebooted right in the middle of step 3.  Is there a
> >> >> way to
> >> >> resume where I left off?  Or do I just start over?
> >> >
> >> > Let me rephrase.  I don't see a way in portupgrade to start over where
> >> > I left off.  However, pkg_info -R lang/perl* shows that all my ports
> >> > depend on 5.10 and no ports are still depending upon 5.8.  Is it safe
> >> > to assume that the reboot happened after portupgrade had finished?
> >>
> >> Nope. With this info you can assume that step 2/3 worked. Not the step
> >> 3/3. I dont know how to restart at the stage it was before reboot as I
> >> dont use portupgrade.
> >> Personnaly, as portmaster failed with some ports and abort the whole
> >> update process, I wrote a simple sh script which loop over the packages
> >> which need perl (got via the via pkg_info -R, need reordering
> >> thought...), exec portmaster ${PKG}, and keep a list of which reinstall
> >> succeed and which failed.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >
> > I hope it is not too far off topic but:
> >
> > Can anyone tell me how to fix this one:
> >
> > Stale dependency: bsdpan-Pod-Perldoc-3.15 -> perl-5.8.9_2 (lang/perl5.8):
> > can't convert nil into string
> >
> >
> > My update to 10 seems to be OK except for this..
> >
> > I cannot find its origin so do not know what to deinstall and reinstall
> >
> > It would also be great to get all bsdpan into the pkgdb with their
> > origins.. is there any way to do that?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > David
>
> Perhaps you should start a new thread.
>
> Chris

Tried that last week to no avail
So asmy question was vaguely on topic I had hoped someone might be able to 
contribute something useful!!

No such luck!!
Thank you for your contribution
most helpful
David