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Date:      Mon, 7 Jan 2002 14:38:18 -0500 (EST)
From:      Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: upgrading perl 5.005 to 5.6.1
Message-ID:  <200201071938.g07JcIN08468@onceler.kciLink.com>
References:  <20020104205242.QNUW20119.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@rwcrwbc57>

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>>>>> "t" == ttop13  <ttop13@attbi.com> writes:

t> I know what cvs is (but not familiar with cvsup).  I 
t> have no idea what "frob a know" means.

Probably a typo for "frob a knob".

t> It seems to me that this ports/package stuff with 
t> FreeBSD was supposed to make it all much easier and take 
t> care of the gory details for me.  

Yes, it does.  However, the ports tree you have is old knowledge.
There has been much knowledge added to the ports since then, and you
need to update it to get that knowledge.  One of those pieces of
knowledge is how to put perl 5.6.1 onto your system easily.  It is not
magic.

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