Re: perl upgrade woes -- how to best reconcile?

2013-07-10 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello Chris On 09.07.2013 20:24, Chris H wrote: Greetings Fabian, and thank you for your reply. You're welcome. My perl5 tree currently looks like: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12/man/ man3/ whatis /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12.4/ man3/ whatis What a mess! If only whatis is left below 5.12.4, then y

Re: perl upgrade woes -- how to best reconcile?

2013-07-09 Thread Chris H
Greetings Mark, and thank you for your reply. > Is there a reason you're avoiding poudriere/pkg ? It's simple to setup and > extremely reliable. Your headaches go away because all of your package > upgrades get built in a jail and you don't have a half-broken system while > waiting for portmaster t

Re: perl upgrade woes -- how to best reconcile?

2013-07-09 Thread Mark Felder
Is there a reason you're avoiding poudriere/pkg ? It's simple to setup and extremely reliable. Your headaches go away because all of your package upgrades get built in a jail and you don't have a half-broken system while waiting for portmaster to run.

Re: perl upgrade woes -- how to best reconcile?

2013-07-09 Thread Chris H
Greetings Fabian, and thank you for your reply. > Hello Chris > > On 09.07.2013 11:18, Chris H wrote: >> How do I best sort this all out. I _really_ miss the perl_after_upgrade >> script, that >> used to accompany this process. > > I also had some challenges with this perl upgrade, but I used > po

Re: perl upgrade woes -- how to best reconcile?

2013-07-09 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article , f...@feld.me writes: >I've had zero problems with upgrades to Perl, etc after I stopped >compiling my packages in the host OS and started building the packages via >poudriere and using pkgng (sysutils/pkg). pkg can detect when a perl >upgrade is happening and is intelligent enou

Re: perl upgrade woes -- how to best reconcile?

2013-07-09 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 09 Jul 2013 04:18:37 -0500, Chris H wrote: How do I best sort this all out. I _really_ miss the perl_after_upgrade script, that used to accompany this process. I've had zero problems with upgrades to Perl, etc after I stopped compiling my packages in the host OS and started buildi

Re: perl upgrade woes -- how to best reconcile?

2013-07-09 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello Chris On 09.07.2013 11:18, Chris H wrote: How do I best sort this all out. I _really_ miss the perl_after_upgrade script, that used to accompany this process. I also had some challenges with this perl upgrade, but I used portupgrade. In the end I created a custom script based on the o

perl upgrade woes -- how to best reconcile?

2013-07-09 Thread Chris H
Greetings, As my upgrade also required the change to subversion, it's been quite a challenge. I've nearly sorted out all the loose ends. But have a real issue with the path change for Perl. Yes, I've read UPDATING. For the most part, I upgraded all the ports via portmaster(8). But apparently that