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Author: Dan
Date: 28-08-04 10:45
I was on Perl 5.6.1 and wanted to try Perl 5.8. Here's what I did, based on help from Mathieu Arnold:
portupgrade -o lang/perl5.8 perl-5.6.1
This tells portupgrade to update perl-5.6.1 taking lang/perl5.8 as the origin. It replaces the old perl with the new.
Then you *must* run use.perl port to tell your system that you have a new perl installed
Then you need to upgrade all the perl modules you have installed (PLEASE read the note after this before running):
portupgrade -f $(find /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 -type f -print0|xargs -0 pkg_which -fv|sed -e 's/.*: //g'|sort -u)
[Mat says he uses $(...) because he uses bash. If you use csh, try `...` instead.]
Mat also said: If you're wondering why not just portupgrade -f p5-*, do a find /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 -type f -print0|xargs -0 pkg_which -fv|sed -e 's/.*: //g'|sort -u|grep -v ^p5-
and you'll see for yourself what else is there. In short, there is more than just p5-* ports depend upon perl.
NOTE: You should read /usr/ports/UPDATING where it contains a section on how to upgrade perl. Here is an extract:
portupgrade -f `(pkg_info -R perl-5.8.5 |tail +4; \
find /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.[124] -type f -print0 \
| xargs -0 pkg_which -fv | sed -e '/: ?/d' -e 's/.*: //')|sort -u`
This is likely to fail for a few ports, you'll have to upgrade them afterwards.
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Post Edited (28-08-04 04:03)
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Author: Erin
Date: 31-08-04 04:09
I just did this about a week ago... after a full backup. It was still stressfull testing all my scripts afterwards to make sure everything worked and hoping I did not have to go backwards. I am running 4.9R with Cyrus-imapd, postfix and a whole host of custom perl scripts.
-Erin
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Author: Erin
Date: 01-09-04 21:34
Sorry, I should have posted that...
Yes it did.
I did have to do a "portupgrade -f" on at least two ports. I do not remember which ones they were right now.
-Erin
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Author: Dan
Date: 30-11-04 15:37
This worked better lately:
portupgrade -f `(pkg_info -R perl-5.8.5 |tail +4; \
find /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.[124] -type f -print0 \
| xargs -0 /usr/local/sbin/pkg_which -fv | sed -e '/: ?/d' -e 's/.*: //')|sort -u`
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Author: Dan
Date: 27-02-05 18:39
Dan wrote:
> NOTE: You should read /usr/ports/UPDATING where it contains a
> section on how to upgrade perl. Here is an extract:
Yes. I recommend using /usr/ports/UPDATING instead of the above.
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Author: tools_10
Date: 10-03-05 15:07
THANKS for the info
i am new to freeBSD system and how it works
i have been a windows system administor for 15 years and at my new job
we use free BSD system on the servers and this is the BEST places to find INFO on HOW TOs ONE BIG THANKS To ALL
tools_10
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Author: Erin
Date: 20-03-05 19:00
It seems that with 5.3R, every port has something to do with Perl. When I updated Perl the last few times, EVERY port on the system had to be updated. With some systems, this is fine (my main web server is an HT3.4 w/ 3G RAM), but other it can take most of the day (Church's 1G Celeron w/ 256M RAM).
Just be careful, this can take a long time.
-Erin
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