From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 7 11:38:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [216.194.193.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCF7137B402 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:38:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [216.194.193.106]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D6891E98B for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 14:38:18 -0500 (EST) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g07JcIN08468; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 14:38:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from khera) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 14:38:18 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200201071938.g07JcIN08468@onceler.kciLink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Vivek Khera To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading perl 5.005 to 5.6.1 Newsgroups: ml.freebsd.questions References: <20020104205242.QNUW20119.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@rwcrwbc57> X-Trace: lorax.kciLink.com 1010428566 55760 216.194.193.106 (7 Jan 2002 18:36:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: daemon@kciLink.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "t" == ttop13 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. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message