How to check if one can install Net::LDAP via the ports

[Danny]

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 17:30:37 +0000, Matthew Seaman
<m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
> The convention is that a perl module Foo::Bar when turned into a port,
> is called p5-Foo-Bar.  This applies to the vast majority of perl
> module ports: however there are some, largely historical exceptions
> (and those usually don't obey the standard module naming conventions
> on CPAN either).  Examples of exceptions are: www/p5-libwww,
> biology/p5-bioperl, p5-Nysql-modules and various other p5-lib<mumble>
> ports.

Useful information, thank you.

> On the specific question of Net::LDAP, the port you want is one of the
> exceptions: net/p5-perl-ldap.  I found that but doing:
> 
>     % make search name=ldap
> 
> which turned up a couple of likely suspects.  A quick check of the
> pkg-plist confirmed that it was the right module:
> 
>     % less /usr/ports/net/p5-perl-ldap/pkg-plist
> 
> Looking at the pkg-plist and pkg-descr file is usually enough to tell
> you what you need to know when looking for the appropriate port.

Works for me. Case closed.

Thank you Dan and Matthew.

...D