From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 31 22:15:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8248316A417 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:15:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from smtp3.utdallas.edu (smtp3.utdallas.edu [129.110.10.49]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73ED013C457 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:15:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from utd59514.utdallas.edu (utd59514.utdallas.edu [129.110.3.28]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp3.utdallas.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id EADA165506 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:15:13 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:15:13 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl To: FreeBSD Ports Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <8BC7BE2B-6820-43F0-A91D-6FB98DAC9067@kcilink.com> References: <2E5E730F2C630876A866F1F0@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <3CC34DA7-F3B7-4AC5-B34B-6C269ED0A133@khera.org> <048997FB3012013C73148867@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <8BC7BE2B-6820-43F0-A91D-6FB98DAC9067@kcilink.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: Question about non-standard CPAN port X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:15:14 -0000 --On Thursday, January 31, 2008 16:51:21 -0500 Vivek Khera wrote: > > On Jan 31, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: > >> One other question. Should the PORTNAME be lower case even though >> the DISTNAME is not? Or does it matter? > > Portname for perl ports is generally upper/lower case mix as the name of the > perl module itself. I don't think it needs to be smashed to lower case. Just > do a pkg_info and see all the p5-* ports... > > I like to name them to match what DISTNAME needs to fetch the file, so I > don't have to explicitly set DISTNAME. > Thank you again, Vivek. I'll finish this up and get it submitted. -- Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/