Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 07:33:35 +0100 From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading Perl... Somebody just shoot me and put me out of my misery! Message-ID: <5292EF3F.1060302@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <0FC91D46CDC4B54132D12167@atuin.in.mat.cc> References: <97331.1385108726@server1.tristatelogic.com> <0FC91D46CDC4B54132D12167@atuin.in.mat.cc>
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Am 22.11.2013 12:52, schrieb Mathieu Arnold: > +--On 22 novembre 2013 00:25:26 -0800 "Ronald F. Guilmette" > <rfg@tristatelogic.com> wrote: > | AUTHOR: mat@FreeBSD.org > > Cough, cough, yeah, I mostly wrote that. > > | portupgrade -o lang/perl5.16 -f perl-5.14.\* > > At that time, that line was right. Now, after that, the perl packages name > which had the same name (all named perl) and were conflicting and were > renamed to perl5 for the default perl, that is, 5.16, and perl5.xx for the > non default ones, that are 5.12, 5.14 and 5.18. > > | pkg_info says that at present I have perl5.14-5.14.4_3 installed. So > | excuse my french, but why the fuck didn't the command: > | > | portupgrade -o lang/perl5.16 -f perl-5.14.\* > > Now, as you can see, your perl is not named perl-5.14 but > perl5.14-5.14.4_3, so, you should change that line to : > portupgrade -o lang/perl5.16 -f perl5.14-5.14.4_3 > > I'll commit an update to that right now. > Please use ... -f perl*5.14* - that should settle old and new installations. And perhaps while at it, we need to tell users to _enable_ the THREADED option in the younger UPDATING entry when make ... config is run. And we should consider reintroducting scripts to help with the updates that avoid reinstalling indirect dependencies. Those we know need to be rebuilt should just get version bumped and that should be it.
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