My experience with this is that the old stuff ends up disappearing.  I've
never had a PERL upgrade go cleanly, especially when you have both CPAN and
PKGSRC packages installed.

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tech-pkg-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:tech-pkg-owner@netbsd.org]On
> Behalf Of Andrew Brown
> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 11:04 AM
> To: Masao Uebayashi
> Cc: tech-pkg@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: perl update?
>
>
> >> >if i go and remove the pkg by hand and then install the new one...does
> >> >everything get screwed up?  or should i really go around rebuilding 28
> >> >things after i reinstall perl?  i'm pretty sure that they all just
> >> >wanna know the binary is at /usr/pkg/bin/perl...
> >>
> >> or...what if i just remove the +REQUIRED_BY file from the pkg
> >> database, delete and reinstall perl, and then put it back?
> >
> >Are you sure that Perl distributes files/directories cotaining its
> >version number?
>
> um...well...yes, it does.  i've got directories called:
>
> /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/5.00503
> /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
>
> that have stuff in them.  i don't see what that has to do with
> upgrading...
>
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