From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 14 20:15:35 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 B89A216A4CE for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:15:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tinker.exit.com (tinker.exit.com [206.223.0.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FE7943D46 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:15:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from realtime.exit.com (realtime [206.223.0.5]) by tinker.exit.com (8.13.1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i9EKGaVQ022908; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:16:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from realtime.exit.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by realtime.exit.com (8.13.1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i9EKFWRx083816; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:15:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank@realtime.exit.com) Received: (from frank@localhost) by realtime.exit.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i9EKFW6c083815; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:15:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank) From: Frank Mayhar Message-Id: <200410142015.i9EKFW6c083815@realtime.exit.com> In-Reply-To: <416ED723.60301@vonostingroup.com> To: Frank Laszlo Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:15:32 -0700 (PDT) X-Copyright0: Copyright 2004 Frank Mayhar. All Rights Reserved. X-Copyright1: Permission granted for electronic reproduction as Usenet News or email only. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL119 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII cc: FreeBSD-Ports 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 Reply-To: frank@exit.com List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:15:35 -0000 Frank Laszlo wrote: > >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. > Not that I can think of. google might tell you something different though.. I happened to install a CPAN module just the other day (on 4-stable); I did an ftrace as I installed it to watch the files being installed and much to my surprise it created some files in /var/db/pkg! I looked and there it was: >l /var/db/pkg/bsdpan-Net-TcpDumpLog-0.11/ total 26 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 61 Oct 13 12:00 +COMMENT -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 679 Oct 13 12:00 +CONTENTS -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 96 Oct 13 12:00 +DESC So, yes, it just works. Coolness! -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/