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Date:      Tue, 12 Nov 2013 18:21:05 +0100
From:      Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Brad Davis <brd@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org,  svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r333591 - head
Message-ID:  <52826381.2090101@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <201311121718.rACHIA2k028480@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201311121718.rACHIA2k028480@svn.freebsd.org>

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On 11/12/13 18:18, Brad Davis wrote:
> Author: brd (doc committer)
> Date: Tue Nov 12 17:18:10 2013
> New Revision: 333591
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/333591
>
> Log:
>    - Clean up the UPDATING entry directions for Perl 5.16
>
>    Approved by:	mat@
>
> Modified:
>    head/UPDATING
>
> Modified: head/UPDATING
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/UPDATING	Tue Nov 12 16:50:12 2013	(r333590)
> +++ head/UPDATING	Tue Nov 12 17:18:10 2013	(r333591)
> @@ -100,13 +100,15 @@ you update your ports collection, before
>     AFFECTS: users of lang/perl5.12 lang/perl5.14
>     AUTHOR: mat@FreeBSD.org
>
> -  The default perl has been switched to lang/perl5.16. If you're using binary
> -  packages, you need to do :
> +  The default Perl has been switched to lang/perl5.16.  These examples
> +  are for switching from lang/perl5.14, if you are running another
> +  version, replace lang/perl5.14 with the origin of the Perl you have
> +  installed.
>
> -  # pkg set -o lang/perl5.14:lang/perl5.16
> +  Pkgng users:
>
> -  If you're not using binary packages and want to (and should) switch, if
> -  you're using perl-5.14, for instance :
> +    # pkg set -o lang/perl5.14:lang/perl5.16
> +    # pkg install -Rf lang/perl5.16

This looks overkill to me. Maybe I'm wrong, but 'pkg upgrade' isn't able 
to guess which packages need reinstalling due to changed dependencies.

-- 
Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org>



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