Checking wether perl ports are up to date

[Matthew Seaman]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:14:58PM +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> 
> 
> +-le 25/06/2003 10:25 +0000, Philip Reynolds écrivait :
> | Mathieu Arnold <m at absolight.net> 14 lines of wisdom included:
> |> Hi,
> |> 
> |> I have a few perl ports, and I was wondering of a way to check wether
> |> they were up to date automatically so that i could update them.
> |> 
> |> I can't believe it won't be useful to someone, so I've put it there :
> |> <http://www.mat.cc/freebsd/check.pl>
> | 
> | Uh, portupgrade? :)
> | 
> | $PORTSDIR/sysutils/portupgrade
> 
> I was talking about the ports being up to date with the last version of the
> perl module (taken from cpan).
> 
> -- 
> Mathieu Arnold

Even if you install perl modules exclusively from ports, you should
still be able to run:

    % perl -MCPAN -e shell

and then type the 'r' command to see which of your installed packages
have updates available on CPAN.  Using CPAN to overwrite a package
initially installed as a FreeBSD port would be a mistake though:
better to pkg_delete first and install the package from scratch with
CPAN afterwards.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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