Upgrade of emacs and xorgs fails becuase of older installation of perl

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I recently upgraded to release 9.0. I used portmanager to upgrade most of my ports after fetching the latest ports using portsnap. I could not however upgrade xorg and emacs. So I tried removing these leaf packages and reinstalling them using pkg_add. However I get the following error message:
Code: 
pkg_add: package 'perl5.12.4_3' conflicts with perl-5.10.1_7
Please use -f to force installation or pkg_delete to remove conflicting package.

When I ran pkg_info -rR perl-5.10.1_7 I noticed I have a lot of packages that depend on perl-5.10.1_7.

Is this expected behavior and besides using the -f option is there any other way to fix it?
 
After upgrading major versions (FreeBSD 8.x -> 9.x), all ports must be rebuilt. Or reinstalled, if you use packages. Packages will expect your system to have the same packages as the remote machine they were built on.
 
I have used a combination of packages and ports. What is the easiest way for me to upgrade all the packages that depend on perl-5-10 to now use perl-5-12?
 
Rebuild them all, and since you've upgraded, rebuilding everything is needed anyway. There's a procedure at the end of the ports-mgmt/portmaster man page for doing that. Or delete everything and reinstall all the needed packages, but I don't know of a similar documented process for that.
 
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