Subject: Re: mapping Perl modules to pkgsrc packages
To: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/04/2003 15:55:05
>I'm trying to install some software (rt -- I wish it were in pkgsrc!)
>that requires a large number of perl modules. Some of the modules it
>thinks are missing were easy to find in pkgsrc; others are harder. (I
>don't think I know enough to turn rt into a package; I certain can't if
>I don't know how to find those modules.)
>
>rt itself can grab modules from cpan, but I'm nervous about how that
>would interact with pkgsrc. Besides, for all the obvious reasons I'd
>rather use pkgsrc to install things.
see pkgsrc/devel/rt-mysql and pkgsrc/devel/rt-pqsql for version 2.0.13
of rt, though i have to recommend the mysql version over the pgsql
one. the pgsql one requires postgresql 7.2 in order to function, and
we currently have 7.3.1 in pkgsrc.
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