[nycbug-talk] upgrading perl and all deps (FreeBSD)

[Charles Sprickman]

On Wed, 17 May 2006, Jonathan wrote:

>
> On May 17, 2006, at 12:42 AM, Charles Sprickman wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Just curious what folks here do that have perl installed from ports and
>> have a large number of dependencies...  A good example would be something
>> like SpamAssassin (have a look at it with 'pkg_tree -v
>> p5-Mail-SpamAssassin').
>
> a-  switch to the port verision of perl
> 	# use.perl port
>
> b- upgrade all the cpan modules
> 	# perl-after-upgrade
> 		( see if any errors get tripped )
> 	# perl-after-upgrade -f
> 		( does the work )

Just to satisfy my curiousity, where did you find out about this?

The manpage sums it up thusly:

DESCRIPTION
      The standard procedure after a perl port (either lang/perl5 or
      lang/perl5.8) upgrade is to basically reinstall all other packages that
      depend on perl.  This is always a painful exercise.  The perl-after-
      upgrade utility makes this process mostly unnecessary.

> there you go.
>
> //Jonathan Vanasco
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