Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 21:15:52 -0700 From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading perl Message-ID: <16590.30712.155216.187588@ran.psg.com> References: <40CDC77A.8090300@fer.hr> <40CE01BC.5060608@alumni.rice.edu>
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> After rebuilding everything, you may want to finalize the upgrade by > cleaning out /usr/local/lib/perl5/ and /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl. > Due to incorrect plists, there may be some files left there from 5.6.x. > It might be a good idea to check that each file is present in the > 5.8.x directory before deleting (as a sanity check for the upgrade), but > after the complete rebuild it should be safe to remove everything. The > goal is to completely get rid of the 5.6.x directories: fwiw, i am now in the habit of putting .pls which are not installed by portupdate (i.e. gotten from here and there) directly in /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl so they go across releases and i don't have to dig them out. randy
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