Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 10:27:11 -0700 From: Robin Schoonover <end@endif.cjb.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating ports perl from 5.8.0 to 5.8.1 Message-ID: <20031102102711.00dba6eb.end@endif.cjb.net> In-Reply-To: <15057D63-0D58-11D8-B2CC-000A95A8D520@lunenburg.org> References: <8DA587DE-0D55-11D8-B2CC-000A95A8D520@lunenburg.org> <44brruwvq4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <15057D63-0D58-11D8-B2CC-000A95A8D520@lunenburg.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 12:14:56 -0500, H.Wade Minter <minter@lunenburg.org> wrote: > > On Nov 2, 2003, at 12:01 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > > Yes. "portupgrade -rf perl" is *exactly* what the incantation I would > > have recommended. > > That didn't seem to work. I ran that on one system, and it only > upgraded perl, it didn't attempt to do any of the p5-* packages. > You could do: portupgrade -rf perl p5-\* I'd imagine -r would mean all p5-* packages are included (since they depend on perl), but obviously that wasn't the case. If the version of FreeBSD is 4.x, then that means there is a perl in the base system, and thus all the p5-* packages probably didn't have perl listed as one of their dependencies. -- Robin Schoonover (aka End) # # There are two kinds of adhesive tape: That which won't # stay on and that which won't come off.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20031102102711.00dba6eb.end>