Subject: Re: perl ports info?
To: Carl Brewer <carl@bl.echidna.id.au>
From: None <cube@cubidou.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/13/2004 13:09:26
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 08:49:44PM +1000, Carl Brewer wrote:
> I'm trying to get RT 3.2.1 to install on my 1.6.2 (i386) server,
> it's got a pile of perl module dependancies, some of which
> are served by the current ports tree, and a few that aren't.
> Rather than try and cobble together a hybrid of ports and
> normal perl module installs, I thought it best to stick
> with one or the other (especially as the ports perl
> doesn't seem to like installing modules 'normally')
> 
> What's the process to use to go about adding (ore requesting that
> they get added by someone with the authority to do so) perl
> modules to the ports tree, and upgrading some - for example
> p5-DBD-mysql is currently at 2.9004, but the ports tree
> version was quite a lot older than that.  I just changed the
> makefile in that port to pull 2.9004 and it seems ok so far.

Oh, right, I forgot to commit that one.  Apart from that, using
the rt3 package I committed a few weeks ago should be just fine.

Ans please use the "pkgsrc tree" terminology.

Quentin Garnier.