Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:28:09 -0700 (PDT) From: youshi10@u.washington.edu To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Managing perl modules Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0703261928090.4053@hymn02.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070326234315.GE25691@rescomp.berkeley.edu>
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On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Ian A. Tegebo wrote: > I'm finding myself needing perl modules that aren't already ports. I > haven't been using BSDPAN because I heard that that method doesn't work > with portupgrade and friends. So far I've been following the porter's > handbook for my own local ports overlay. > > Is there a recommended method for managing perl modules? I was hoping > cpan2dist via CPANPlus would do the trick but it looks like it hasn't > been subclassed for ports yet: > > http://search.cpan.org/~kane/CPANPLUS-0.076/ > > I know Gentoo has g-cpan for this purpose and debian has dh-make-perl. > Is BSDPAN dead simple and I've just been missing out? > > -- > Ian Tegebo How dead is BSDPAN? If someone could provide me with some info I can look into fixing it maybe. -Garrett
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