UPDATING - perl

Matt Emmerton matt at gsicomp.on.ca
Sun May 2 16:21:45 PDT 2004


> Hi,
>
> Trying to upgrade my perl as mentioned in /usr/ports/UPDATING :
>
> 20040204:
>   AFFECTS: 5.2-CURRENT users who started with a 5.2-RELEASE or older.
>
>   Change the default version of perl to 5.8.
>
>   1) Force perl-5.6.1 to be upgraded with perl-5.8.
>         portupgrade -o lang/perl5.8 -f perl-5.6.1_15
>
>   2) Update all p5-* modules.
>         portupgrade -f p5-\*
>
> And the first step goes fine, but when I do the second step it seems
> to want to go back to loading/installing perl 5.6.1 . I CTRL-C'd it before
> it got too far. Is it ok to allow it to continue? Is there a step that
> should be changed/added?

cvsup ports-all first?

--
Matt Emmerton



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