bsdpan-DB_File - missing origin

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Sat Apr 17 18:16:00 PDT 2004


In the last episode (Apr 17), Lee Dilkie said:
> >If you do 
> >    perl -MCPAN -e shell
> >    install DB_File
> >
> >then you get that port.
> 
> Okay, that is good to know. But I, personally, never did this so it
> must have been done by one of the ports I have installed. I just
> wonder which one, or rather, how one goes about discovering which
> one. Any ideas?

According to the pkg-plist for both the perl5 and perl58 ports, DB_File
is part of perl itself.  I don't think a port would try and install
something already on the system, and it shouldn't be using perl's
install method if it did.

Could it have been done by a non-port install maybe?

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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