problem with /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Mon Jul 19 17:40:33 PDT 2004


On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 20:29, Mike wrote:
> When upgrading perl, I do:
> portupgrade -f p5-\* 
> which does the trick for me.

Also, after you upgrade perl, you will be back to using the system perl;
you must "use.perl ports" before portupgrade -f'ing the p5-* modules. 
Failing to do this will install the modules in the system perl with
dependencies on the ports perl, which will just cause confusion.

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