Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 13:01:40 +0200 From: Fabian Wenk <fabian@wenks.ch> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl upgrade woes -- how to best reconcile? Message-ID: <51DD3F14.9010500@wenks.ch> In-Reply-To: <44f72b29a68d30c276b13ee4a2730cc9.authenticated@ultimatedns.net> References: <b6972e29972ccc387362375cac01efa8.authenticated@ultimatedns.net> <51DBEB9F.7020803@wenks.ch> <44f72b29a68d30c276b13ee4a2730cc9.authenticated@ultimatedns.net>
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Hello Chris On 09.07.2013 20:24, Chris H wrote: > Greetings Fabian, and thank you for your reply. You're welcome. > My perl5 tree currently looks like: > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12/man/ > man3/ > whatis > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12.4/ > man3/ > whatis > What a mess! If only whatis is left below 5.12.4, then you can remove the whole 5.12.4 folder. And also /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.4/, if it does exist and does not contain anything relevant. > In the end, I guess the moral of the story is; don't upgrade. This is a bad idea, at least from the security point of view. > I've been on BSD since the late 70's, and as such, am no stranger > to the upgrade path. But recent experience seems to show, things > aren't getting any easier (or necessarily better). :( Sure, there are sometimes bumps on the road, but I had never any real show stopper and could always get it to work. I did install my two private servers back in 2007 with 6.x, upgraded to 7.x and just recently from 7.4 to 9.1. For the Ports I always used portupgrade. At least for the Ports it helps if you are doing it regularly, so the steps are not that huge. Important to always check /usr/ports/UPDATING. Currently I do upgrade the Ports around every 4 weeks, and additional when portaudit complains and I decide that I need to do it right now. >> The next big challenge then will be the upgrade to e.g. 5.14.x or >> 5.16.x. > > I don't think I'm even willing to go there, after this mess. As Mark pointed out, ports-mgmt/poudriere together with pkgng (ports-mgmt/pkg) looks promising. Sure something I did put on my todo list. > Thanks again, for taking the time to respond. You're welcome. PS: No need to use "reply all", reply only to the list is perfect, as I do filter e-mails based on the "List-Id" header line. bye Fabian
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