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?
I can usually use dmesg soon after bootup to display hardware info that my kernel loads. After my system has been up for a while however, dmesg no longer produces anything of value concerning hardware. How can I find out my hardware specifics, such as what kind of CD ROM drive I have, that is usually found by dmesg?
Is there an easy way to check a ChangeLog of a FreeBSD port before you upgrade? For instance, I'd like to check what upgrades are mandatory before I do portmaster -ad. It would be nice to have something like portaudit, but for changelogs. The closest thing I know of is head -n 40 UPDATING.