Perl upgrade question

[Matthew Seaman]

Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> Robert Huff wrote:
>> Dominic Fandrey writes:
>>
>>>  >>  For portupgrade:
>>>  >>  # find /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 -type f -exec pkg_info -W \{} \; | grep -Eo '[^ ]+$' | sort -u | xargs -o portupgrade -f
>>>  >>  
>>>  >>  Afterwards there shouldn't be anything left belonging to a package.
>>>  > 
>>>  > 	Once I have done this - and it appears to run successfully - is
>>>  > it safe to delete the 5.8.8 directories?
>>>  
>>>  You should first check what is left there. There might be a
>>>  whatis file and a couple of empty directories. In that case it's
>>>  safe to delete the stuff. If there's any more there, it depends
>>>  on your own judgement, or ask someone about it.
>> huff at jerusalem>> pwd
>> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8
>> huff at jerusalem>> find . -type f
>> ./perl/man/whatis
>> ./mach/perllocal.pod
>> ./man/whatis
> 
> No idea, but it's obviously something left behind by a port with an
> incomplete plist. I think it's safe to delete that.

.pod is 'plain ordinary documentation' or some such. perllocal.pod is
generated when you install ports from CPAN rather than through the ports
system -- it's officially a record of what add-on perl modules you've
installed -- superfluous when you're using the ports  as it already has
mechanisms to track that sort of thing.  It doesn't belong to any particular
module and it's generally safe to delete.
 
> Don't forget to check /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 as well.

Heh.  site_perl is a more important place to check than anywhere else.
site_perl is where you are going to find any stray files that exist
as that's where all the add-on modules should be installed to. 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/ is for the stuff bundled with perl as
the standard modules.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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