Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 12:14:56 -0500 From: H.Wade Minter <minter@lunenburg.org> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Updating ports perl from 5.8.0 to 5.8.1 Message-ID: <15057D63-0D58-11D8-B2CC-000A95A8D520@lunenburg.org> In-Reply-To: <44brruwvq4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <8DA587DE-0D55-11D8-B2CC-000A95A8D520@lunenburg.org> <44brruwvq4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 2, 2003, at 12:01 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > H.Wade Minter <minter@lunenburg.org> writes: > >> I'd like to update my ports-installed version of Perl from 5.8.0 to >> 5.8.1. On my test system, I did a "portupgrade -rR perl", but it >> didn't update any of my installed p5- modules, which caused breakage >> until I reinstalled all of them by hand. >> >> Is there a better way to update Perl? Would a "portupgrade -rRf" have >> helped? > > Yes. "portupgrade -rf perl" is *exactly* what the incantation I would > have recommended. That didn't seem to work. I ran that on one system, and it only upgraded perl, it didn't attempt to do any of the p5-* packages. - --Wade -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (Darwin) iD8DBQE/pTuRo4DwsyRGDscRAlCHAJwKaGy4LQ5BwxhQQEZoLfqfYLE74wCeKzKv e0oQC33yGTQ5FtzsV/d4xUI= =rs6u -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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