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Date:      Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:02:42 +0200
From:      Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: updating perl
Message-ID:  <20050625170242.GA29532@lothlorien.nagual.st>
In-Reply-To: <69E076B1F727F645D1D6CFBC@adsl-63-206-71-69.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net>
References:  <000501c579a5$50bf0d70$0200a8c0@satellite> <69E076B1F727F645D1D6CFBC@adsl-63-206-71-69.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net>

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On 25 Jun John Webster wrote:
> Read /usr/ports/UPDATING:
> 
> 20050624:
>   AFFECTS: users of lang/perl5.8
>   AUTHOR: tobez@FreeBSD.org
> 
>   lang/perl5.8 has been updated to 5.8.7.  You should update
>   everything depending on perl.  The easiest way to do that is
>   to use perl-after-upgrade script supplied with lang/perl5.8.
>   Please see its manual page for details.

In other words:

run "perl-after-upgrade" (note the remarks)
run "perl-after-upgrade -f" (to make the changes)

Never updated a perl version easier before!
What a relief.. this script :-)

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