From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Wed Apr 19 15:32:47 2006
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AC7216A40A
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:32:47 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com)
Received: from smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk
	[195.188.213.6])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA12D43D46
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:32:45 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com)
Received: from [172.23.170.140] (helo=anti-virus02-07)
	by smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52)
	id 1FWEfc-0005vL-NG; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:32:44 +0100
Received: from [80.192.25.195] (helo=[192.168.0.2])
	by asmtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.52)
	id 1FWEfa-0002bV-Vc; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:32:43 +0100
Message-ID: <4446581A.4060201@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:32:42 +0100
From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060305
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: David Robillard <david.robillard@gmail.com>
References: <226ae0c60604190758o352e6124oa56ffc6e4ffdb7cc@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <226ae0c60604190758o352e6124oa56ffc6e4ffdb7cc@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: How to link CPAN to FreeBSD ports perl modules?
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:32:47 -0000

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