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diff --git a/metadata/news/2010-10-22-perl-5_12-upgrade-procedure/2010-10-22-perl-5_12-upgrade-procedure.en.txt b/metadata/news/2010-10-22-perl-5_12-upgrade-procedure/2010-10-22-perl-5_12-upgrade-procedure.en.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 0be2ab381542..000000000000 --- a/metadata/news/2010-10-22-perl-5_12-upgrade-procedure/2010-10-22-perl-5_12-upgrade-procedure.en.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,27 +0,0 @@ -Title: Perl 5.12 upgrade procedure -Author: perl-team <perl@gentoo.org> -Author: Torsten Veller <tove@gentoo.org> -Content-Type: text/plain -Posted: 2010-10-22 -Revision: 1 -News-Item-Format: 1.0 -Display-If-Installed: <dev-lang/perl-5.12 - -==> Run `perl-cleaner --all` after upgrading to a new Perl version! <== - -"Perl 5.12 is not binary compatible with prior releases of Perl. If -you have built extensions (i.e. modules that include C code) using an -earlier version of Perl, you will need to rebuild and reinstall those -extensions." [1] - -In fact, in Gentoo you currently have to rebuild all Perl modules and -all binaries linking libperl to get into a consistent state again. - -perl-cleaner generates a list of broken packages and passes it to your -package manager to reinstall them. After reinstalling the packages, -perl-cleaner outputs a list of files the script could not deal with -(like modules installed not via the package manager). - -See `man perl-cleaner` for its options. - -[1] http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.12.2/INSTALL#Changes_and_Incompatibilities |