From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 14 15:43:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E900116A7DE for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 15:43:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from geri.cc.fer.hr (geri.cc.fer.hr [161.53.72.107]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC5D443D2D for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 15:43:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ivoras@fer.hr) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (root@geri.cc.fer.hr [161.53.72.107]) by geri.cc.fer.hr (8.12.9p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i5EFeaUh054456 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 17:40:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ivoras@fer.hr) Message-ID: <40CDC77A.8090300@fer.hr> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 17:42:50 +0200 From: Ivan Voras User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Upgrading perl X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 15:43:09 -0000 The situation is: running 4-stable, with perl 5.6 from ports, with lots of packages which depend on it. Now I need to install an application that requires perl5.8! Is there a way to switch over to 5.8 without breaking everything? I'm asking this because I see two different ports in the tree: perl5, which installs 5.6 and perl5.8 which apparently has what I need, but portupgrade doesn't understand it (tries to upgrade 5.6 to a newer port revision). I tried installing the perl5.8 port (which gets me three versions of perl installed, *sigh*), but existing applications couldn't find needed modules. -- What part of "Ph'nglui mglw'nath Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" don't you understand?