Date: 02 Nov 2003 16:56:44 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: H.Wade Minter <minter@lunenburg.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Updating ports perl from 5.8.0 to 5.8.1 Message-ID: <448ymyv3hf.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <15057D63-0D58-11D8-B2CC-000A95A8D520@lunenburg.org> References: <8DA587DE-0D55-11D8-B2CC-000A95A8D520@lunenburg.org> <44brruwvq4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <15057D63-0D58-11D8-B2CC-000A95A8D520@lunenburg.org>
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H.Wade Minter <minter@lunenburg.org> writes: > On Nov 2, 2003, at 12:01 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > H.Wade Minter <minter@lunenburg.org> writes: > > > >> I'd like to update my ports-installed version of Perl from 5.8.0 to > >> 5.8.1. On my test system, I did a "portupgrade -rR perl", but it > >> didn't update any of my installed p5- modules, which caused breakage > >> until I reinstalled all of them by hand. > >> > >> Is there a better way to update Perl? Would a "portupgrade -rRf" have > >> helped? > > > > Yes. "portupgrade -rf perl" is *exactly* what the incantation I would > > have recommended. > > That didn't seem to work. I ran that on one system, and it only > upgraded perl, it didn't attempt to do any of the p5-* packages. Hmm. I guess those packages aren't dependent on a specific version of perl; if they'd been built against the 4.x base system's version, for example, you wouldn't have *wanted* them updated. So they don't claim to be dependent on the perl package itself. I suppose that's a bit of a special case. I had tried it on a different case before sending my message (because I don't have a perl port installed), and it had done what I expected.
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