Perl CPAN and packages question

Attos attos.janus at gmail.com
Fri Jul 1 22:59:20 GMT 2005


Thanks a lot, seems I have to live with it.
Thanks...

On 7/1/05, Will Andrews <will at csociety.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 06:47:00PM -0400, Attos wrote:
> > I installed some perl modules from CPAN using the MCPAN module and now
> > whenever I run any utility that deals with the packages database I get
> > the following two messages:
> >
> > pkg_info: package bsdpan-Term-ReadLine-Perl-1.0203 has no origin recorded
> > pkg_info: package bsdpan-TermReadKey-2.30 has no origin recorded
> >
> > How can I fix this? Should I bother fixing it?
> 
> You can't fix it.  Upgrading ports only works for real packages,
> not virtual ones like bsdpan-* which are generated by BSDPAN when
> you install perl modules via MCPAN.
> 
> regards,
> --
> wca
> 
> 
> 


-- 
Attos Janus


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