Updated perl - broke stuff

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Mon Feb 14 02:38:37 GMT 2005


On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 08:35:06PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On Sunday, February 13, 2005 5:18 PM -0500 Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> 
> wrote:
> >
> >Did you read /usr/ports/UPDATING?  It contains a suggestion for how to
> >update the Perl ports which might have helped...
> >
> Well, no.  Why on earth would I do *that*?  ;-)
> 
> (Thanks for the tip.  I ran it.)  I wonder why the perl port doesn't 
> include  this command in a post-install script?

It's a once-off change needed when updating from an older version, and
the post-install script (or any other part of the port build) doesn't
know that this is what is happening.

kris

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