Question about ports

[Marcia Barrett Nice]

On Wednesday 06 October 2004 01:38 pm, Pierre LeBlanc wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to the port collection and updating ports with CVSup but I managed
> to update the ports of my FreeBSD 4.10 system using CVSup.
>
> Now, I want to upgrade Perl to version 5.6 and I notice there is a perl5
> port in the list I`ve seen on:
>
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.10-release/
>
> But this port is not on my system and to understand how to get perl5 in my
> port collection, I searched on the Internet for several hours without
> success.
>
> Can you refer me a specific page or a chapter in the FreeBSD manual that
> describe how to do it?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Pierre LeBlanc
>

I think you want to use cvs or cvsup to update your ports collection.  The 
handbook page for cvsup is: 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html

After that, you may have to deinstall your current version of perl to get a 
newer one to install, but there I am not certain.

As usual, -newbies isn't really the place to ask this.  -questions is more 
appropriate and more likely to get you a valid answer.

Marci