bsdpan-* ports, portmanager, and "@comment ORIGIN:"

[Daniel Staal]

I'm working on developing some stuff in Perl on my box, which works fairly 
well unless I go to update my system.  Anytime I do, I get the following 
error from portmanager:

`rCreateInstalledDbVerifyContentsFile 0.4.1_9 error: "@comment ORIGIN:" not 
found in /var/db/pkg/bsdpan-$MODULE_NAME`

Where $MODULE_NAME is one of the modules I've installed via CPAN, instead 
of using the FreeBSD ports system.  It will advise me to delete the package 
and then try manually reinstalling it - which works, *if* I install the 
Ports version.  Then running portmanager again will just pick the next 
module from the list, and go on, until I've uninstalled everything I 
installed via CPAN and installed it from Ports.

Which would be fine, if annoying, if everything actually was available in 
Ports.  But it's not: I'm using several modules that aren't available from 
Ports, and of course the modules I'm *developing* aren't available from 
Ports.

So, is there any way to *avoid* getting that error?  Some way where I can 
actually use the ports system to keep my stuff up to date?  (Even if it 
doesn't include the manually-installed software?)  Or do I just have to 
avoid anything Perl-related from the Ports system and install everything 
manually?  (Or - likely at that point - find a different OS to work on. 
It'd be less hassle to switch OSes than to try to make sure *nothing* using 
Perl is installed from the Ports.)

Daniel T. Staal

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