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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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