On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 18:21:34 -0400, Mike Jarvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> They swear they're upgrading RSN, when BSD (Free? Open? Whichever.)
> does. They only run stable from their distro, and it's hard to fault
> an ISP for that.
That's a pretty lame excuse. It's very easy to disable the builtin perl
and run a newer version from ports in FreeBSD.
% sudo portinstall lang/perl5.8
% sudo use.perl port
You still have to remove the system perl bits, but that's pretty easy:
1. Put "NOPERL=yes" in /etc/make.conf, to ensure a make world won't
overwrite everything.
2. Delete /usr/share/libdata/perl, and the following programs from
/usr/bin (you may also wish to delete the man pages from
/usr/share/man/man1):
perl
a2p
c2ph
dprofpp
enc2xs
find2perl
h2ph
h2xs
libnetcfg
perl5.00503
perlbug
perlcc
perldoc
perlivp
piconv
pl2pm
pod2html
pod2latex
pod2man
pod2text
pod2usage
podchecker
podselect
psed
pstruct
s2p
sperl5.00503
splain
suidperl
xsubpp
3. You'll probably want to symlink /usr/bin/perl to
/usr/local/bin/perl.
-Dom
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