Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 05:34:01 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Mark Huizer <freebsd@dohd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: MAJOR changes to the ports system Message-ID: <20040206133401.GA53303@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20040205185355.GA92331@eeyore.local.dohd.org> References: <1075880955.76993.54.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20040205185355.GA92331@eeyore.local.dohd.org>
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--4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 07:53:55PM +0100, Mark Huizer wrote: > On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 02:49:15AM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > Sorry for the wide distribution, but it is critical that -CURRENT users > > hear this. Two _MAJOR_ changes just went in to the ports tree that are > > bound to cause some pain to -CURRENT users. =20 > >=20 > > Second, Perl 5.8.2 is now the default version of Perl in -CURRENT since > > the 5.2 split. This replaces Perl 5.6.1 as the default. Note: Perl > > 5.00503 is still the default version of Perl in the 4.X base OS. >=20 > Did anyone ever create some kind of 'best practice' on how to upgrade > ports' perl on a system? I see quite a lof dependencies, and the issue > is/might be that files are installed in directories carrying the perl > version number. > What do people do to make this transition? upgrade perl and make a > symlink? Upgrade perl and reinstall all ports? deinstall everything and > reinstall? Add this to make.conf: PERL_VER=3D5.8.2 PERL_VERSION=3D5.8.2 PERL_ARCH=3Dmach NOPERL=3Dyo NO_PERL=3Dyo NO_PERL_WRAPPER=3Dyo Remove old perl port, install perl 5.8, rebuild p5*, fix dependencies with pkgdb -F. Kris --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAI5fIWry0BWjoQKURAkPqAKCUP20S36fm02DXroSP/6xB/dTgwACgkVdQ vTqLj+jZdAXDA6ZXbOQlugw= =3gs0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY--
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