kb.hurricane-ridge.com » Perl http://kb.hurricane-ridge.com My personal - but public - knowledge base Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:18:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Perl installation “best” practices http://kb.hurricane-ridge.com/scripting/perl/perl-installation-best-practices http://kb.hurricane-ridge.com/scripting/perl/perl-installation-best-practices#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:36:27 +0000 admin http://kb.hurricane-ridge.com/?p=64 An old post, but one whose recommendations seem to work well – especially the part about installing as a non-root user – if you’re faced with an inflexible packaging of a system Perl that you don’t want to touch, like an RPM install. (Not needing to worry about things like this most of the time is one of the greatest strengths of FreeBSD’s ports system.) From the Journal of jdavidb: Perl installation “best” practices.

]]> http://kb.hurricane-ridge.com/scripting/perl/perl-installation-best-practices/feed 0 Upgrading Perl 5.6 to Perl 5.8 Using Portupgrade and perl-after-upgrade http://kb.hurricane-ridge.com/scripting/perl/upgrading-perl-56-to-perl-58-using-portupgrade-and-perl-after-upgrade http://kb.hurricane-ridge.com/scripting/perl/upgrading-perl-56-to-perl-58-using-portupgrade-and-perl-after-upgrade#comments Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:36:48 +0000 admin http://kb.hurricane-ridge.com/?p=36 Use the -o flag to portupgrade to replace the perl5 port with a the perl5.8 port:

# portupgrade -rR -o lang/perl5.8 lang/perl5

After the upgrade (this is applicable after any Perl ports upgrade, such as 5.8.8 to 5.8.9), run the perl-after-upgrade script, first in test mode, then in fix mode:

# perl-after-upgrade
# perl-after-upgrade -f

Fix any errors highlighted by perl-after-upgrade, and reinstall any required packages. Review files left behind from the older Perl installation (typically /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.X.Y/). After verifying that the upgraded Perl works as expected, remove +CONTENTS.bak files from subdirectories under /var/db/pkg.

See the perl-after-upgrade man page for more details.

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