Can I resume the perl upgrade?

Brian Whalen brian at brianwhalen.net
Fri Apr 10 16:55:33 UTC 2009


Paul Schmehl wrote:
> According to /usr/ports/UPDATING, if you want to upgrade to perl5.10, 
> you do the following:
>
> Portupgrade users:
>    0) Fix pkgdb.db (for safety):
>        pkgdb -Ff
>
>    1) Reinstall perl with new 5.10:
>        portupgrade -o lang/perl5.10 -f perl-5.8.\*
>
>    2) Reinstall everything that depends on Perl:
>        portupgrade -fr perl
>
> My machine got rebooted right in the middle of step 3.  Is there a way 
> to resume where I left off?  Or do I just start over?
>
What about perl-after-upgrade instead of step 3?  I havent done this 
perl upgrade yet, but normally this is enough.

Brian


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