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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:35:57 -0600
From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
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Subject: Re: Question about non-standard CPAN port
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--On Thursday, January 31, 2008 12:59:53 -0500 Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> 
wrote:

>
> On Jan 31, 2008, at 10:55 AM, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>
>> My question is, should I submit this port even though it uses a non-
>> standard master site from CPAN?
>
> Do it like this:
>
> MASTER_SITES=   ${MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN}
> MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR=     ../by-authors/id/S/SA/SAXJAZMAN/Snort
>

Thanks, Vivek.

One other question.  Should the PORTNAME be lower case even though the DISTNAME 
is not?  Or does it matter?

-- 
Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/