From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 14 08:18:45 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BFE1CA for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:18:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsdml@marino.st) Received: from shepard.synsport.net (mail.synsport.com [208.69.230.148]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A6851B34 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:18:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.22] (unknown [130.255.16.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by shepard.synsport.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EE7843552; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 03:18:39 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <51BAD1D7.5020500@marino.st> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:18:31 +0200 From: John Marino User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Mueller Subject: Re: Rebuild all ports for perl minor version update? References: <88415.98533.bm@smtp104.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <88415.98533.bm@smtp104.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:18:45 -0000 On 6/14/2013 10:12, Thomas Mueller wrote: > Since this is only (?) a minor-version update, why should it be necessary to upgrade all ports that depend on perl? > In that case, why didn't they go to perl 5.18? According to OpenBSD's Marc Espie on a pkgsrc list, a lot of established scripts will break on perl 5.18. Apparently it is not highly backwards compatible. A large % of the perl packages would cease to build if they just moved to 5.18. A minor upgrade is definitely better. John