(Useful?) Perl Port Scripts

[Christopher Boumenot]

I have written a few scripts that I use when I am doing janitor work on 
the Perl port scripts, and I figured I should share them.  I hope 
someone else will find them useful.

perl-port-gen: A glorified shell script to help with the updating and 
creation of Perl ports.  It executes the steps outlined in the Handbook 
for creating a new port.  It creates a temporary directory, calls mtree, 
builds the port's dependencies, installs the port, and generates a plist.

perl-port-man: Enumerate all of the man pages for the Perl port, and 
indicated in the Makefile for the port.  If there are man pages for the 
port not listed in the Makefile print them out.  This is also useful for 
creating the list of man pages, especially if it is rather long.

perl-port-rev: Enumerate all of the Perl ports, and compare the current 
version with the version on CPAN.  I use this when mostly for doing Perl 
port janitor work.  It isn't 100% (+90%) accurate because not all CPAN 
libraries following the version number convention, or I just parsed the 
version wrong.

perl-plist: Basically a sed script written in Perl to help generate a 
port's plist.  This script is called by perl-port-gen.


All of the scripts can be found at http://boumenot.googlepages.com.


Thanks,
Christopher