Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:30:49 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Updated perl - broke stuff Message-ID: <20050214233049.GC98419@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20050214112407.GB7268@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <200501271852.j0RIqQ9t010411@mp.cs.niu.edu> <44is5imspz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <04d201c51214$4bb07ab0$7702a8c0@officeeagle> <420FD249.4060408@mac.com> <2147483647.1108326906@[192.168.2.100]> <20050214023836.GA27431@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050214112407.GB7268@lothlorien.nagual.st>
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--lCAWRPmW1mITcIfM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 12:24:07PM +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > On 13 Feb Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 08:35:06PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: > > > --On Sunday, February 13, 2005 5:18 PM -0500 Chuck Swiger <cswiger@ma= c.com>=20 > > > wrote: > > > > > > > >Did you read /usr/ports/UPDATING? It contains a suggestion for how = to > > > >update the Perl ports which might have helped... > > > > > > > Well, no. Why on earth would I do *that*? ;-) > > >=20 > > > (Thanks for the tip. I ran it.) I wonder why the perl port doesn't= =20 > > > include this command in a post-install script? > >=20 > > It's a once-off change needed when updating from an older version, and > > the post-install script (or any other part of the port build) doesn't > > know that this is what is happening. >=20 > Meaning I don't run this update script when updating perl from say > "5.8.5" to "5.8.6" ? No, that what I meant by "when updating from an older version". When perl changes from e.g. 5.8.6 to 5.8.6_1 (an internal port change that doesn't change where the files are stored on disk) you don't need to take special action. Kris --lCAWRPmW1mITcIfM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCETSoWry0BWjoQKURAtNeAKCCi68j4tG1c634lzLI31OSlF9OtQCcC4d8 L4wIrTlqtfwwsWg7mUySh3I= =23qb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lCAWRPmW1mITcIfM--
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