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Date:      Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:55:21 +0000
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        "Scott I. Remick" <scott@sremick.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Straightening out perl
Message-ID:  <20031223155521.GD36128@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <pan.2003.12.23.15.35.09.262499@sremick.net>
References:  <pan.2003.12.23.15.35.09.262499@sremick.net>

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On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 10:35:09AM -0500, Scott I. Remick wrote:

> One option would be to do a pkg_delete -f on 5.6 then use portdb -F to fix
> the dependencies. Not sure if that's enough or if I need to rebuild. And
> if I need to rebuild the dependencies, how could I easily handle the list
> in one-pass? Right now it all depends on 5.6 which I'd be deleting. I
> could whack 5.6, repoint all dependencies to 5.8, then tell it to forcibly
> rebuild everything that depends on 5.8... but I don't know if this is the
> right thing to do.

This is pretty much the right thing to do.  You need to delete the
perl-5.6.1_15 port, *and then re-install perl-5.8.2_2* and run
'use.perl port' again.  That will make perl-5.8.2 your default perl.
Use pkgdb -F to fix up the dependencies.

Then you may feel the need to re-install all perl ports which have
installed anything under /usr/local/lib/perl5/{,site_perl/}5.6.1 in
order to keep everything tidy -- that'll be pretty much every port
with a p5- preffix, plus a few oddballs tike rrdtool, pdflib,
ImageMagick -- judicious use of pkg_which(1) will help you there.

	Cheers,

	Matthew


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