From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 14 18:55:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F84B16A4CE for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:55:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.seekingfire.com (coyote.seekingfire.com [24.72.10.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C34843D31 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:55:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: by mail.seekingfire.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id C9298B45; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:55:57 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:55:57 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson To: FreeBSD-Ports Message-ID: <20041014185557.GT8057@seekingfire.com> References: <20041014174541.GR8057@seekingfire.com> <416EC02F.5000700@vonostingroup.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <416EC02F.5000700@vonostingroup.com> X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-GPG-Key-ID: 828AFC7B X-GPG-Fingerprint: 5584 14BA C9EB 1524 0E68 F543 0F0A 7FBC 828A FC7B X-GPG-Key: http://www.seekingfire.com/gpg_key.asc X-Urban-Legend: There is lots of hidden information in headers User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: Install a Perl module that's not currently a port? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:55:58 -0000 On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 02:06:39PM -0400, Frank Laszlo wrote: > Tillman Hodgson wrote: > > >Howdy, > > > >How does one cleanly install a perl module (List::Group, in this case) > >that's not currently a port? I seem to recall reading something about a > >CPAN wrapper or something along those lines ... > > You could either create your own port for it, or use cpan to install it, > information regarding cpan can be found at > http://www.cpan.org, to get to the cpan shell, simply execute: > perl -MCPAN -e shell I'll likely create my own port then, as I don't want to get off the portupgrade track. I was hoping that there was a CPAN wrapper that would "portify" modules brought in via CPAN automatically. -T -- "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." -- Plutarch (45 - 125 A.D. Greek Writer & Lecturer)