On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Helmut Schneider <jumpe...@gmx.de> wrote: > # pkg_info -R perl-threaded-5.8.9_3 | grep -v ^p5 > Information for perl-threaded-5.8.9_3: > > Required by: > amavisd-new-2.6.4_4,1 > apache-2.2.14_5 > bsdpan-SNMP-Extension-PassPersist-0.03 > gamin-0.1.10_3 > gio-fam-backend-2.22.4 > glib-2.22.4 > mailgraph-1.14_2 > nagios-plugins-1.4.14,1 > net-snmp-5.4.2.1_6 > pango-1.26.2 > razor-agents-2.84 > rpm2cpio-1.2_2 > rrdtool-1.3.9 > # > >> (Also, cross-checking with /usr/local/bin/perl-after-upgrade helps >> with some other specific cases). > > I did so when I upgraded from 5.8.8 to 5.8.9. I finally found myself > doing a portupgrade -af. :) >
I'm not a heavy Perl user, but I don't remember anything ever melting "too much", while doing it this way. Of course, there are things like irssi, that break -every time- you reinstall Perl (even the same version), but one gets used to it quickly. Then there is the rest that probably only execs some scripts with Perl and doesn't care about your versions (much). Majority of your, or mine, installed ports have Perl only as an inherited dependency and never directly use it, so -af is a bit overkill in such cases, i mean: pkg_info | wc -l 805 Whew. So even when you're switching near-major versions, recompiling p5-* and maybe some of those in your list (I'd randomly pick, say amavisd, bsdpan- and razor) should be enough, the fallout will be minimal, if any (and if so, you just rebuild that one more that still fails). Nevertheless, your list in't that extensive, recompiling all of it shouldn't take more than half an hour, that's still a bit cheaper than -af :) m. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"