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[Philip M. Gollucci]

I agree.

On Monday, September 14, 2015, Adam Weinberger <adamw at adamw.org> wrote:

> > On 14 Sep, 2015, at 6:19, Mathieu Arnold <mat at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >
> > +20150914:
> > +  AFFECTS: users of lang/perl5*
> > +  AUTHOR: mat at FreeBSD.org
> > +
> > +  Binary package users can ignore this.
> > +
> > +  The way lang/perl5* ports install themselves has changed.  From now
> on, only
> > +  the default Perl version will install /usr/local/bin/perl.
> > +
> > +  If you are NOT using the default version of Perl (as of right now, it
> is
> > +  5.20) you MUST add a line setting the version you are using to your
> > +  /etc/make.conf:
> > +
> > +  DEFAULT_VERSIONS+= perl5=5.xx
> > +
> > +  Especially, after this date, to migrate from one Perl version to the
> other,
> > +  you must first put the DEFAULT_VERSIONS line in your make.conf, and
> then, for
> > +  example, if you want to move from 5.20 to 5.22, do:
> > +
> > +     pkg set -o lang/perl5.20:lang/perl5.22
> > +     portmaster `pkg shlib -qR libperl.so.5.20`
> > +
> > +  If you do not do that, you will replace your default Perl 5.20
> installation
> > +  (one that has /usr/local/bin/perl) to an installation that does not
> have
> > +  /usr/local/bin/perl, and it will break everything.
>
> Mat, there is some critically confusing wording here. When you say
> "default Perl version" it kindof implies lang/perl5.20 as that is the
> default version of Perl. No part of the instructions says explicitly that
> setting DEFAULT_VERSION= perl5=5.22 will make /usr/local/bin/perl come back.
>
> > From now on, only the default Perl version will install
> /usr/local/bin/perl.
>
> The way it's written now makes it sound like if you have anything but 5.20
> installed, /usr/local/bin/perl is going to disappear, which will break
> every userland (non-ports) perl script.
>
> I strongly recommend changing it to something like:
>         From now on, only the default Perl port (currently 5.20), or the
>         version listed in DEFAULT_VERSIONS, will install
> /usr/local/bin/perl.
>
> and later:
>         you MUST add a line setting the version you are using to your
>         /etc/make.conf, to preserve /usr/local/bin/perl:
>
> # Adam
>
>
> --
> Adam Weinberger
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>
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