Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:15:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> To: Frank Laszlo <laszlof@vonostingroup.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Install a Perl module that's not currently a port? Message-ID: <200410142015.i9EKFW6c083815@realtime.exit.com> In-Reply-To: <416ED723.60301@vonostingroup.com>
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Frank Laszlo wrote: > >I'll likely create my own port then, as I don't want to get off the > >portupgrade track. I was hoping that there was a CPAN wrapper that would > >"portify" modules brought in via CPAN automatically. > Not that I can think of. google might tell you something different though.. I happened to install a CPAN module just the other day (on 4-stable); I did an ftrace as I installed it to watch the files being installed and much to my surprise it created some files in /var/db/pkg! I looked and there it was: >l /var/db/pkg/bsdpan-Net-TcpDumpLog-0.11/ total 26 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 61 Oct 13 12:00 +COMMENT -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 679 Oct 13 12:00 +CONTENTS -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 96 Oct 13 12:00 +DESC So, yes, it just works. Coolness! -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/
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