On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 12:24:07PM +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > On 13 Feb Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 08:35:06PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: > > > --On Sunday, February 13, 2005 5:18 PM -0500 Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL > > > PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > >Did you read /usr/ports/UPDATING? It contains a suggestion for how to > > > >update the Perl ports which might have helped... > > > > > > > Well, no. Why on earth would I do *that*? ;-) > > > > > > (Thanks for the tip. I ran it.) I wonder why the perl port doesn't > > > include this command in a post-install script? > > > > It's a once-off change needed when updating from an older version, and > > the post-install script (or any other part of the port build) doesn't > > know that this is what is happening. > > Meaning I don't run this update script when updating perl from say > "5.8.5" to "5.8.6" ?
No, that what I meant by "when updating from an older version". When perl changes from e.g. 5.8.6 to 5.8.6_1 (an internal port change that doesn't change where the files are stored on disk) you don't need to take special action. Kris
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