I use the ports system on FreeBSD. What is the easiest way to upgrade Perl using ports? I currently uninstall all of perl and it’s dependencies. I’d think there would be a cool way to upgrade Perl and all it’s dependencies. What would that be?
see /usr/ports/UPDATING the entry from 20120630 has detailed description how to do it with portmaster or portupgrade
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