From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 14 20:26:24 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 CACA716A4CE for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:26:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.seekingfire.com (coyote.seekingfire.com [24.72.10.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99AB843D2F for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:26:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: by mail.seekingfire.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 5357935D; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:26:24 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:26:24 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson To: FreeBSD-Ports Message-ID: <20041014202624.GX8057@seekingfire.com> References: <20041014174541.GR8057@seekingfire.com> <416EC02F.5000700@vonostingroup.com> <20041014185557.GT8057@seekingfire.com> <20041014201531.GA58524@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041014201531.GA58524@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> 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 20:26:24 -0000 On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 09:15:31PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Actually, BSDPAN does most of that. It overrides the normal CPAN > behaviour to register the installed package in the pkgdb -- so you can > delete it or make a FreeBSD pkg out of it. The worst problem is that > a package installed via BSDPAN doesn't have a port origin or the other > usual bits for an ordinary port. They're also not capable of being > maintained by portupgrade(1). That was the exact information I was looking for, thank you. > Having a real port for any useful perl modules is desirable. That makes sense. The portupgrade tools are too useful to ignore. -T -- Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of security. - Alma Mavis Taraza