Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:32:42 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: David Robillard <david.robillard@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to link CPAN to FreeBSD ports perl modules? Message-ID: <4446581A.4060201@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <226ae0c60604190758o352e6124oa56ffc6e4ffdb7cc@mail.gmail.com> References: <226ae0c60604190758o352e6124oa56ffc6e4ffdb7cc@mail.gmail.com>
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David Robillard wrote: >Hello everyone, > >I'm looking for a way to link perl modules found in CPAN and the ones >found in the FreeBSD ports repository. > >For example, let's say I need to install the following CPAN module: > >http://search.cpan.org/dist/libwww-perl/lib/HTTP/Request/Common.pm > >A search in the ports for " ^p5-HTTP " will return all perl modules >which names start with p5-HTTP. But the above CPAN module does not >exist. > >Does this means that the CPAN module is not in the ports? Or is there >another way to link CPAN modules to the ports collection? > > The CPAN module is libwww-perl, in the ports as p5-libwww-perl $ pkg_info -o p5-libwww\* Information for p5-libwww-5.805: Origin: www/p5-libwww hth, --Alex
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