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Date:      Fri, 15 Oct 2004 10:01:15 +0100
From:      Tom Hukins <tom@FreeBSD.org>
To:        David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Install a Perl module that's not currently a port?
Message-ID:  <20041015090115.GB50514@eborcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <0thdoxysq4.wl@nohost.unb.ca>
References:  <20041014174541.GR8057@seekingfire.com> <416EC02F.5000700@vonostingroup.com> <20041014185557.GT8057@seekingfire.com> <416ED723.60301@vonostingroup.com> <0thdoxysq4.wl@nohost.unb.ca>

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On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 05:01:23PM -0300, David Bremner wrote:
> 
> Have a look for BSDPAN.  It is about halfway to what you want I
> figure. Basically when you install a package the "perl way" on
> FreeBSD, it makes a package entry so that you can e.g. delete it using
> pkg_delete.  But I don't think it gives you any ability to upgrade.

You might also want to look at CPANPLUS::Dist::Ports.  It's far from
fully working, but CPANPLUS::Dist is an interesting approach to
automatically incorporating Perl modules into several packaging
systems.

Tom



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