svn commit: r386270 - head

Mathieu Arnold mat at FreeBSD.org
Wed May 13 21:51:08 UTC 2015


Author: mat
Date: Wed May 13 21:51:07 2015
New Revision: 386270
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/386270

Log:
  Add a note about /usr/bin/perl.
  
  Sponsored by:	Absolight

Modified:
  head/UPDATING

Modified: head/UPDATING
==============================================================================
--- head/UPDATING	Wed May 13 21:19:54 2015	(r386269)
+++ head/UPDATING	Wed May 13 21:51:07 2015	(r386270)
@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ you update your ports collection, before
 
 	portmaster -f `pkg shlib -R libperl.so.5.18|tail +2`
 
+  NOTE:
+    Perl has been removed from base more than ten years ago, so it was way past
+    time for the /usr/bin/perl symlink to be removed from the port.  If for
+    some strange reason, you still need it, you will have to create it
+    manually.
+
   IMPORTANT:
     In case you have not updated your system in a while, and specifically,
     followed the 20141126 instructions regarding the new Perl layout, you


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