Can someone explain why we have to run an update batch in order to have
all Perl related programs running with this update? Wouldn't it be
better to upgrade Perl and have all programs use it as it hadn't been
updated at all?
Jos Chrispijn
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Jos Chrispijn wrote:
Can someone explain why we have to run an update batch in order to have
all Perl related programs running with this update? Wouldn't it be
better to upgrade Perl and have all programs use it as it hadn't been
updated at all?
You're talking about the update of
Matthew Seaman wrote:
You're talking about the update of lang/perl5.10 from perl-5.10.0
to perl-5.10.1 ?
The reason you need to run perl-after-upgrade is because perl library
modules are stored in directory trees which encode the perl version
number.
perl-after-upgrade basically moves
Having been surpised by not finding this in the archives, the handbook or google, I
turn to the list.
I seem to recall that after updating perl to a new version, I need to edit some files
and relink some
libraries, however, I can't seem to find the info on how this is done.
TIA
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