Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:58:07 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.org>, perl@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone Message-ID: <20050129205807.GA36637@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org>
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--BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 09:24:25PM +0100, Anton Berezin wrote: > Unless I hear too many cries "don't do that" (with justification), I > plan to not create any perl symlinks in /usr/bin in the forthcoming > upgrade of both lang/perl5.8 (to 5.8.6) and lang/perl5 (to 5.6.2). This > will ONLY be true for FreeBSD 5.X and FreeBSD CURRENT; the existing > pollution of /usr/bin will still be performed for older versions of > FreeBSD, if requested via use.perl script. >=20 > In practical terms this will mean a one-time sweep of your scripts in > order to convert them, in a typical case, from #! /usr/bin/perl to > #! /usr/local/bin/perl. >=20 > CORRECT perl-dependant ports should not be affected. >=20 > In order to keep pkg-install simple, no old symlink chasing and removal > will be done, although the detailed instructions will be posted in > ports/UPDATING and in pkg-message for the ports. BTW, this goes beyond what I was asking for, which was just "remove the dangling symlinks when the package is deinstalled [because they are now nonfunctional]" Kris --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB+/jfWry0BWjoQKURAlBHAKCuLLUMkZRjRDoRmcg1cnL77FhM8wCgrcqL uEEwVEPBbJ+9+nqtX424oiA= =UGH+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3--
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