Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 13:42:03 -0500 From: Danny <nocmonkey@gmail.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, Danny <nocmonkey@gmail.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to check if one can install Net::LDAP via the ports Message-ID: <addc34c6041104104242fe5f5a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20041104173037.GA7719@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <addc34c6041104091148e5ea2@mail.gmail.com> <20041104173037.GA7719@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 17:30:37 +0000, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > The convention is that a perl module Foo::Bar when turned into a port, > is called p5-Foo-Bar. This applies to the vast majority of perl > module ports: however there are some, largely historical exceptions > (and those usually don't obey the standard module naming conventions > on CPAN either). Examples of exceptions are: www/p5-libwww, > biology/p5-bioperl, p5-Nysql-modules and various other p5-lib<mumble> > ports. Useful information, thank you. > On the specific question of Net::LDAP, the port you want is one of the > exceptions: net/p5-perl-ldap. I found that but doing: > > % make search name=ldap > > which turned up a couple of likely suspects. A quick check of the > pkg-plist confirmed that it was the right module: > > % less /usr/ports/net/p5-perl-ldap/pkg-plist > > Looking at the pkg-plist and pkg-descr file is usually enough to tell > you what you need to know when looking for the appropriate port. Works for me. Case closed. Thank you Dan and Matthew. ...D
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