From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 2 13:56:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AE5D16A4CE for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 13:56:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from be-well.no-ip.com (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [66.30.200.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C316443FE9 for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 13:56:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: by be-well.no-ip.com (Postfix, from userid 1147) id C7C013B05; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 16:56:44 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: H.Wade Minter References: <8DA587DE-0D55-11D8-B2CC-000A95A8D520@lunenburg.org> <44brruwvq4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <15057D63-0D58-11D8-B2CC-000A95A8D520@lunenburg.org> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 02 Nov 2003 16:56:44 -0500 In-Reply-To: <15057D63-0D58-11D8-B2CC-000A95A8D520@lunenburg.org> Message-ID: <448ymyv3hf.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Updating ports perl from 5.8.0 to 5.8.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD Questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 21:56:46 -0000 H.Wade Minter writes: > On Nov 2, 2003, at 12:01 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > H.Wade Minter 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.