From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 17 09:56:22 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1339F16A4CE for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:56:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from shaft.techsupport.co.uk (shaft.techsupport.co.uk [212.250.77.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B72D543FAF for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:56:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from cpc2-cdif3-6-0-cust204.cdif.cable.ntl.com ([81.103.67.204] helo=shrike.submonkey.net ident=mailnull) by shaft.techsupport.co.uk with esmtp (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD 4.9) id 1ALnbl-000CKg-8H; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:56:18 +0000 Received: from setantae by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD 4.9) id 1ALnbd-000Dbk-2A; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:56:09 +0000 Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:56:09 +0000 From: Ceri Davies To: Matthew Seaman Message-ID: <20031117175608.GD385@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Matthew Seaman , questions@FreeBSD.org References: <20031117153303.GC385@submonkey.net> <20031117165616.GA91222@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="H8ygTp4AXg6deix2" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031117165616.GA91222@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> X-PGP: finger ceri@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Ceri Davies cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BSDPAN X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:56:22 -0000 --H8ygTp4AXg6deix2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 04:56:16PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 03:33:03PM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote: > >=20 > > How do I use BSDPAN? > >=20 > > I'm assuming that it's reasonably automagic, but have no idea where to > > start - I don't seem to have it installed, for one. > >=20 > > I'm running -STABLE with the base perl. >=20 > As far as I can tell, there isn't a version of BSDPAN that works with > the base perl (ie. 5.005.03). The BSDPAN modules aren't available > from CPAN -- seems the only source is MASTER_SITE_LOCAL, eg: >=20 > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/tobez/ >=20 > and there isn't an appropriate version there. Ah; that makes sense. It looks like it used to be in the base system, but isn't anymore, which is probably one source of my confusion: {setantae@shrike}-{~} $ locate BSDPAN | head -1 /a/FreeBSD/ncvs/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/BSDPAN > If you install one of the perl versions from ports, you'll get the > matching BSDPAN version automatically. You don't need to do anything > special to use it, just install perl modules from CPAN in the normal > way: >=20 > # perl -MCPAN -e shell >=20 > All BSDPAN does is subclass some of the ExtUtils modules to add some > glue between the ports/pkg system and CPAN, so you can use the pkg_* > tools on perl modules and so forth. That's what I'd figured, but I didn't realise I needed a perl from ports. Thanks very much for the clarification. Ceri --=20 --H8ygTp4AXg6deix2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/uQu4ocfcwTS3JF8RAlO/AKCQo8bdfzXE1SEv0Sq7R/5YrAKzzQCgtnEY IuXgM4vC4rPz/BO670Ojd9E= =EAHy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --H8ygTp4AXg6deix2--