> The situation is: running 4-stable, with perl 5.6 from ports, with lots > of packages which depend on it. Now I need to install an application > that requires perl5.8! > > Is there a way to switch over to 5.8 without breaking everything? I'm > asking this because I see two different ports in the tree: perl5, which > installs 5.6 and perl5.8 which apparently has what I need, but > portupgrade doesn't understand it (tries to upgrade 5.6 to a newer port > revision). > > I tried installing the perl5.8 port (which gets me three versions of > perl installed, *sigh*), but existing applications couldn't find needed > modules. You may want to read /usr/ports/UPDATING, especially entry 20040204. I think this should help you in the upgrading process. Regards, -- Jeremie LE HEN aka TtZ/TataZ jeremie.le-hen_at_epita.fr ttz_at_epita.fr Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!Received on Mon Jun 14 2004 - 14:12:36 UTC
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