Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 09:39:29 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDPAN versus CPAN Message-ID: <20050803143929.GC93405@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20050803065047.C16518@prime.gushi.org> References: <20050803065047.C16518@prime.gushi.org>
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In the last episode (Aug 03), Dan Mahoney, System Admin said: > I'm under the understanding that it's somehow preferable to install > perl modules via the ports system, rather than the straight off perl > -MCPAN -e shell system I normally use. Apparently the only advantage > is this avoids the "no origin recorded" errors (although portupgrade > can't handle BSDPAN modules). The other advantage is that if you install perl modules via ports, portupgrade will upgrade them. I didn't think CPAN had any sort of automatic updating option. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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