Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:56:35 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl upgrade question Message-ID: <496FB113.4040009@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <18799.43947.180265.451418@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <18798.1525.541314.409491@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <496E4525.8010500@bsdforen.de> <18798.24182.492454.229881@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <496FA85C.1010109@bsdforen.de> <18799.43947.180265.451418@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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Robert Huff wrote:
> Dominic Fandrey writes:
>
>> >> For portupgrade:
>> >> # find /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 -type f -exec pkg_info -W \{} \; | grep -Eo '[^ ]+$' | sort -u | xargs -o portupgrade -f
>> >>
>> >> Afterwards there shouldn't be anything left belonging to a package.
>> >
>> > Once I have done this - and it appears to run successfully - is
>> > it safe to delete the 5.8.8 directories?
>>
>> You should first check what is left there. There might be a
>> whatis file and a couple of empty directories. In that case it's
>> safe to delete the stuff. If there's any more there, it depends
>> on your own judgement, or ask someone about it.
>
> huff@jerusalem>> pwd
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8
> huff@jerusalem>> find . -type f
> ./perl/man/whatis
> ./mach/perllocal.pod
> ./man/whatis
No idea, but it's obviously something left behind by a port with an
incomplete plist. I think it's safe to delete that.
Don't forget to check /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 as well.
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