Re: complex perl packages and dependencies

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:56:27 +0900, Brook Milligan 
<brook%biology.nmsu.edu@localhost> wrote:

> Benny,
>
> Benny Siegert writes:
>  > For things that are packaged via CPAN, I wrote a script I called
>  > "cpan2port" for a different ports tree (MirPorts), which tracks down
>  > dependencies and creates a package for each one semi-automatically,
>  > calling itself recursively if needed. I made a presentation about it
>  > on FOSDEM (see http://slideshare.net/bsiegert/). I could adapt it for
>  > pkgsrc if you are interested.
>
> I think that would be really great.  If you don't have commit access,
> I'm glad to work with you to test it and import it into pkgsrc
> (perhaps renamed as pkgtools/cpan2pkg?).

Or merge it into pkgtools/url2pkg?
url2pkg also create template pkgsrc files from URL for distribution file.
DEPENDS entries will be added automatically, but not complete because of
no information about modules in base perl.

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