Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:33:31 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl upgrade question Message-ID: <18799.43947.180265.451418@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <496FA85C.1010109@bsdforen.de> References: <18798.1525.541314.409491@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <496E4525.8010500@bsdforen.de> <18798.24182.492454.229881@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <496FA85C.1010109@bsdforen.de>
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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
What's a .pod?
Robert Huff
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