To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Cc: "Paul Schmehl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: Updated perl - broke stuff
Wouldn't it make more sense to fix mod_perl? (Or portupgrade - whichever one is the culprit?) All the ports that depended upon perl appear to have had their dependencies updated properly except for libwww and mod_perl. ISTM, fixing those two ports makes more sense.
I stopped using portupgrade because it only upgrades ports that are out-of
date. It then modifies the installed software database to change any
dependencies that relied on the old port to show them as relying on the new
port.
For most ports, this works. For Perl, particularly mod_perl, this doesn't
work. If you install a new perl you have to rebuild everything that depends
on perl even if it hasn't been updated.
So I stopped using portupgrade.
If you don't use portupgrade, then what *do* you do? Wouldn't you have to deinstall and reinstall every port that depended upon perl? Or will pkgdb -F do the trick?
Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/
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