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@@ -6,6 +6,30 @@ You should get into the habit of checking this file for changes each time you update your ports collection, before attempting any port upgrades. +20050201: + AFFECTS: users of lang/perl5 and lang/perl5.8 + AUTHOR: tobez@FreeBSD.org + + lang/perl5 has been updated to 5.6.2, and lang/perl5.8 has been + updated to 5.8.6. you should update everything depending on perl, that + is: + + * first, upgrade your perl installation (use either lang/perl5 or + lang/perl5.8, the latter being recommended); + * for FreeBSD 4.X, run "use.perl port", so that the system knows you + have 5.8.6 or 5.6.2; this step is not needed on FreeBSD 5.X and + FreeBSD -CURRENT; + * run some magic incantations to upgrade all ports depending on perl, + that is run something like : + portupgrade -f `(pkg_info -R perl-5\* |tail +4; \ + find /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.[68].[1245] -type f -print0 \ + | xargs -0 pkg_which -fv | sed -e '/: ?/d' -e 's/.*: //')|sort -u` + This is likely to fail for a few ports, you'll have to upgrade them + afterwards by hand. + Please note, that this last step is, strictly speaking, not necessary, + if you are upgrading from 5.8.[45] to 5.8.6, or from 5.6.1 to + 5.6.2. But it is cleaner to do so anyway. + 20050130: AFFECTS: users of PostgreSQL AUTHOR: girgen@FreeBSD.org |