Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 18:16:49 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> Cc: FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Rebuild all ports for perl minor version update? Message-ID: <CAN6yY1sTtDY_=9gRWKTrfMoX5HzFjUzZ1v1V_z_E1WZjFpA=YA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <609568.9341.bm@smtp115.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <609568.9341.bm@smtp115.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
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On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net>wrote: > from my priginal post: > > I see in the $PORTSDIR/UPDATING file that perl has been updated. > > perl5.16 has been updated from 5.16.2 to 5.16.3 . > > Since this is only (?) a minor-version update, why should it be necessary > to upgrade all ports that depend on perl? > > portmaster -r perl > > In that case, why didn't they go to perl 5.18? > > Since so many ports depend on perl, and png too, maybe they should have > updated perl and png (to 1.6.x) at the same time, then two massive > portmaster or portupgrade runs could have been done together, as one even > bigger portmaster or portupgrade run? > > John Marino responded: > > > 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. > > But then why must all FreeBSD ports that depend on perl be rebuilt for a > minor-version upgrade, 5.16.2 to 5.16.3? > > Tom > They don't really need to be re-built, but it is the safest way to go. I never go that way as he risk is EXTREMELY low and the time savings are HUGE. I just posted a much quicker way in the thread on Broken SNMP::Info. Start with "portmaster p5-". Then go check on the remaining files (not directories) under /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/OLD_PERL_VERSION and re-build the ports that installed them (pkg_info -W FILENAME to find them). Also, the changes to the perl ports were for the exact purpose of eliminating the future need to do these rebuilds for minor version updates. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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