On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Sam Carleton wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:31:58AM +0000, Chris Pinnock wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 03:17:18PM -0500, Chuck Yerkes wrote:
> > >
> > > I use pkgsrc.  And Perl5.8.2.  Rare is the perl pacakge thats
> > > not in pkgsrc that you commonly need.
> >
> > Perl 5.8.3 is in pkgsrc as perl58. If you install perl58 first,
> > you will get the situation you want.
>
> Yes, I did the inital install last week.  I opted,
> yesterday, to simply tar up all the config files and start
> over by installing the perl58 pkgsrc.  I am up and running
> fine now, not 100%, but am getting there fast!

	You can also add PERL5_REQD=5.8 to /etc/mk.conf to ensure perl58
	is always used.


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