Cannot upgrade Perl5

[Paul Smith]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Andre Goree <andre at drenet.net> wrote:
> I read the UPDATING message regarding perl serveral months ago, but since I
> used the default version of perl, I disregarded it -- UPDATING mentions only
> needing to take action if you were NOT using the default version.
>
> Here is the issue I'm running into today:
>
> agoree at anet ~ % portupgrade perl5
> Password:
> [Reading data from pkg(8) ... - 403 packages found - done]
> ** Port deleted on 2015-12-31: lang/perl5.16
>         Has expired: Unsupported, please upgrade to a more recent version of
> Perl
> ** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
>         - lang/perl5.16 (port deleted)
> agoree at anet ~ % pkg info -x perl
> ...
> perl5-5.16.3_24
> ...
>
>
> How exactly would I go about upgrading perl5 given the above error?  Perhaps
> forcing an uninstall and reinstalling it?  I suppose I'd then have to
> rebuild everything that depends on Perl5?
>

There is an UPDATING message dated 20150513 stating that the default
Perl version was switched to 5.20. That message has instructions on
how to upgrade that may help you.

Paul