Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:39:01 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: scuba@centroin.com.br Subject: Re: Step-by-step to upgrade Perl Message-ID: <200404121239.01356.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20040412183038.GA68839@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <Pine.BSI.4.33.0404121327590.23571-100000@hypselo.centroin.com.br> <20040412183038.GA68839@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Monday 12 April 2004 11:30 am, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 01:30:37PM -0300, scuba@centroin.com.br wrote:
> > I'd like to upgrad Perl to 5.8 using ports on FreeBSD 4.7, but
> > how to do that in order to completely overwrite the old version
> > (5.5.3). Which is the correct steps to upgrade Perl?
>
> No -- it's a lot easier than you seem to think.
>
> i) Install the perl5.8 port:
>
> # portinstall lang/perl5.8
>
> - or -
>
> # cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8
> # make install
>
> ii) Set the new version of perl to be the default. (This also turns
> off building perl as part of the base system):
>
> # use.perl port
>
> iii) Re-install any 3rd party modules, etc that you've installed so
> the new perl can access them. There should be a neater way of
> doing this...
>
> # find /usr/local/lib/perl5/{site_perl/5.005,5.00503} -type f
> -print0 | \ xargs -0 -n 1 pkg_which | sort -u > /tmp/perl-ports # vi
> perl-ports
>
> [ Sanity check the results: take out any non-ports (like
> '?'), ports that are now bundled with perl or that you no
> longer wish to have installed ]
>
> # portupgrade -f `cat /tmp/perl-ports`
>
> Et voila. New version of perl installed and ready to go.
>
There is one group that doesn't appear. All of the versions of automake
use perl and have the version to use as the 1st line. You need to
portupgrade -f automake
to get things ready for your new version of perl. FWIW, I am using
perl-5.8.2_5
There should be some sort of USE_PERL in their makefiles but isn't
there.
Kent
--
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA
http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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