perl - update

ajtiM lumiwa at gmail.com
Wed Feb 2 13:46:54 UTC 2011


On Wednesday February 2 2011 07:20:43 RW wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 07:03:32 -0600
> 
> ajtiM <lumiwa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > My system: FreeBSD 8.1
> > 
> > I like to update perl to higher version and I don't want to screw
> > up... I red /usr/ports/UPDATING:
> > 
> > "perl-after-upgrade" script supplied with lang/perl5.12
> > 
> > If I update to perl 5.12.3 is it enough that I run above script,
> > please? In /etc/make.conf I have:
> > # added by use.perl 2010-11-05
> > 17:40:46 PERL_VERSION=5.8.9
> > 
> > I have above from version 8.0. Do I need to change version from 5.8.9
> > to 5.12 or to 5.12.3?
> 
> In UPDATING it also says:
> 
> "  If you want to switch to lang/perl5.12 from lang/perl5.{8,10} please
>   follow instructions in the entry 20100715 in this file."
> 
> 
> Note that 5.8.9 is built out of a different port to 5.12.3
> 
Thank you very much. But I like to know if I need to change entry in 
make.conf:
# added by use.perl 2010-11-05
17:40:46 PERL_VERSION=5.8.9

to PERL_VERSION=5.12.3

or just delete those line.

Thanks in advance.


Mitja
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