Thanks Dale and Joshua. Not a big deal. There's always workaround available.
Next time when something like this happens, an announcement would be nice so that end users won't be surprised. On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 10:09 PM, Joshua M. Clulow <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17 March 2018 at 17:23, Dale Ghent <[email protected]> wrote: > > /usr/perl5 is intended only for the operation of illumos components > which require perl. The intention is that, over time, these perl (and > probably Java, too) components will be rewritten in C or deprecated, as > appropriate. > > > > If you require a general-purpose perl interpreter for your applications, > it's recommended that you install and use the versions made available > through pkgsrc. With that, you may exercise version and feature control as > you see fit. > > In particular, I believe there is a pkgsrc bootstrap targeted > specifically for use in the SmartOS global zone, available at: > > http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-illumos/#tools-install > (make sure you click the "64-bit tools (SmartOS GZ)" tab) > > If this is missing software that you need for some management purpose > in the global zone, it's possible that the pkgsrc folks can add more > things to the set! > > Cheers. > > -- > Joshua M. Clulow > Engineer @ Joyent > http://blog.sysmgr.org > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
