Greetings... I am looking at upgrading to 8.1 from 8.0 on an AMD64.
As you know, Perl is now at 5.12 and requires a recursive dependency rebuild; and so does libgcrypt. This seems to be a rather extensive pair of updates. Perl, while (IIRC) it is in the base system, is being reported as needing an upgrade via portversion | grep '<'. I seem to recall something that makes me think I am wrong here...that it's not in the base system, maybe? Is libgcrypt, perhaps, part of the base system? I suspect not. I've read http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/relnotes.html and http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/relnotes-detailed.html and Perl 5.12 is not mentioned as a part of 8.1. Does this mean that an upgrade via /usr/src will not upgrade Perl to 5.12? I suspect it does mean that Perl will not be upgraded from 5.10; but I do hope that Perl will be upgraded to 5.12 via an update to /usr/src. I also can't remember if a recursive rebuild of all ports after an upgrade across releases was ever recommended. For some reason, I think I read that somewhere. My point with these questions is to move toward 8.1 in the most economical manner. Thanks for any help, and best regards, Joe _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
