Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:14:05 -0500 From: Christopher Nehren <apeiron@comcast.net> To: Alex Soares de Moura <alex@rnp.br> Cc: FreeBSD Ports List <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Suggestions for an interim perl upgrade? Message-ID: <20040227201405.GA96896@prophecy.dyndns.org>
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--TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >I have a production server that needs badbly to have it's perl >installation upgraded to perl 5.8.3 right now and I'd like to know if >there's any best practice to do the upgrade without conflicting with >it's port (and the portupgrade tool), when released. I filed a PR more than a month ago (ports/61444) which provides an upgrade for lang/perl5.8. It's still awaiting approval (hint, hint).=20 I've been running it since I submitted it without a single issue (WITH_THREADS, to boot!). It's not official, but I've been using it non-stop for over a month. >Another concern regards to upgrading various perl dependent (also p5-*) >ports with this manual perl 5.8.3 installation using portupgrade: does >this work 100%? And when the official perl port is released, will the >portupgrade be able to correctly handle the future upgrades? I followed the normal upgrade procedure after applying my patch and installing 5.8.3. Again, no problems, but this isn't official (yet) either.=20 Speaking of: can someone _please_ take a look at ports/61444? I've CC'd=20 tobez previously (see message ID=20 20040220183953.GA977@prophecy.dyndns.org), but haven't received a response yet. -- I abhor a system designed for the "user", if that word is a coded pejorative meaning "stupid and unsophisticated". -- Ken Thompson - Unix is user friendly. However, it isn't idiot friendly. - Please CC me in all replies, even if I'm on the relevant list(s). --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAP6UNk/lo7zvzJioRAs+3AJ9QMp1ugSyw7P9p/BZLrFfxLQlWkwCgjEdX tv00sNQ0JI6ZqDzs3R9MRJI= =tAun -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/--
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