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Subject: Query about port
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From: dom@happygiraffe.net (Dominic Mitchell)
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[Please ensure any replies are cc'd to me, I'm not on the list]

I am currently trying to port AxKit (http://axkit.org/), which is a
mod_perl application.  It has a couple of problems that I can't work
out, though.

1) AxKit needs a new version of libapreq (0.31_03), whereas the port
   www/p5-libapreq is only version 0.31.  The new p5-libapreq isn't
   distributed  outside of AxKit, as far as I can see.

   What should I do?  Create an extra port to install libapreq and
   depend on that?  But that would overwrite any existing p5-libapreq
   port.

   Alternatively, is there a way to say that a port depends upon another
   port *not* being installed?

2) AxKit uses Perl's XML::Parser module.  However, when loaded into
   Apache, this causes conflicts with the version of expat loaded into
   Apache.  I got around this by patching the apache port to include the
   "--disable-rule=EXPAT" flag to configure.  But I have no idea how to
   get around this in general.

Any ideas about these two?  I'm kind of stumped.

-Dom


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