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Subject: automation of perl port creation from cpan
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 11:40:41 +0100
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Hi,

I have a perl app that I'd like to move to FreeBSD. It currently has a
whole list of cpan dependencies. Is there any partial automation of
generating ports from CPAN directly? Something similar to py-pytoport
for example.

Thanks
Dave