in reply to Updating modules when updating Perl on BSD

In /usr/ports/UPDATING, entry "20050201" lists a way to upgrade some of the Perl software ... 

portupgrade -f \
`
 ( pkg_info -R perl-5\* \
   | tail +4; \
   find /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.[68].[1245] -type f -print0 \
   | xargs -0 pkg_which -fv \
   | sed -e '/: ?/d' -e 's/.*: //' \
 ) \
 | sort -u
`

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... and adds that above "is likely to fail for a few ports, you'll have to upgrade them afterwards by hand". See also the "20050624" entry which mentions perl-after-upgrade, installed w/ Perl 5.8.7 port.

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Re^2: Updating modules when updating Perl on BSD
by samizdat (Vicar) on Jan 12, 2006 at 15:46 UTC
    Good pointers, parv, thanks! I'd forgotten the UPDATING file in /usr/ports, just looked in the one in /usr/src.

    One of the problems I have here at SNL is the firewalls, which kill make test's on things like HTTP::SimpleLinkChecker which just assume that you have (unfettered) Internet access.

    Still, though, I have to step back and appreciate how much really does get done automatically by CPANPLUS and portupgrade and cvsup and make... Things could be a LOT worse... :D

    Don Wilde
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