Install a Perl module that's not currently a port?

[Tillman Hodgson]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 09:15:31PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Actually, BSDPAN does most of that.  It overrides the normal CPAN
> behaviour to register the installed package in the pkgdb -- so you can
> delete it or make a FreeBSD pkg out of it.  The worst problem is that
> a package installed via BSDPAN doesn't have a port origin or the other
> usual bits for an ordinary port.  They're also not capable of being
> maintained by portupgrade(1).

That was the exact information I was looking for, thank you.

> Having a real port for any useful perl modules is desirable.

That makes sense. The portupgrade tools are too useful to ignore.

-T


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