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Date:      02 Nov 2003 12:01:23 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        H.Wade Minter <minter@lunenburg.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Updating ports perl from 5.8.0 to 5.8.1
Message-ID:  <44brruwvq4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <8DA587DE-0D55-11D8-B2CC-000A95A8D520@lunenburg.org>
References:  <8DA587DE-0D55-11D8-B2CC-000A95A8D520@lunenburg.org>

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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.



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