Upgrading perl

[David Newman]

On 8/29/12 8:08 AM, Jack Stone wrote:
> On 8/29/2012 8:27 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>> Jack Stone <jacks at sage-american.com> writes:
>>
>>> uname -a FreeBSD mail.sagedata.net 7.0-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD
>>> 7.0-RELEASE-p9 #2: Sun Jan 18 19:59:27 CST 2009
>>>
>>> Running perl5.10 (yeah, old!)
>>> This is a production server.
>>>
>>>
>>> Been playing catchup on ports including perl as UPDATING recommends:
>>> portupgrade -o lang/perl5.12 -f perl-5.10.\*
>>>
>>> That has worked on other servers, but not this one. Anyone know what I
>>> need to do to clean this up??
>>>
>>> But, can't get past this fatal error:
>>> mail# portupgrade -o lang/perl5.12 -f perl-5.10.\*
>>> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.options.mk", line 231: Error in archive
>>> specification: "WITHOUT_"
>>> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.options.mk", line 231: Error in archive
>>> specification: "WITHOUT_"
>>> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
>>> ** Makefile possibly broken: lang/perl5.12:
>> You're almost four years past the end-of-life on the release you're
>> running, so it's been left behind in terms of support. In this case it
>> looks (based on a *very* quick look) that you may be running into
>> changes in how make(1) actually works, in which case backporting the
>> ports functionality will be more work than it's worth.
>>
>> If the machine "can't" be updated, and assuming it's secure (which hard
>> to be sure about with old software on the Internet), you may be best off
>> leaving it alone.
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
>>
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> Actually, on other servers with the same upgrading needs, perl-5.12
> installed without any issue. My intention is to upgrade perl in
> increments to get well past EOL.
> 
> Wonder if I just deinstalled the old perl5-5.10 and then installed the
> perl5-12 would work. I can do that right from the port: make perl5-12
> first to see if that works, then:
> # make deinstall (perl-5.10) then: make install clean

If you're using portmaster, you should be able to do something like the
following from /usr/ports:

  portmaster -o lang/perl5.16 lang/perl5.10
  portmaster p5-

and perl automagically will upgrade.

This is from /usr/ports/UPDATING. You can also find instructions for
portupgrade there.

Don't know about dependencies with 7.0, though.

dn


> 
> What do you think? I've got to move up because an important perl program
> requires a minimum 5.12.



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