in message <20150603172207.gf2...@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu>, wrote William Bulley thusly... > ... > My focus now is trying to install DBD::Oracle 1.74 from CPAN (from > April of 2014) on my system. ... > What is confusing to me is why FreeBSD _still_ contains > DBD::Oracle 1.19 in their "ports" tree! After all these years!
Since it's maintainership was passed to perl@freebsd ... r296145 | skv | 2012-05-07 05:42:51 -1000 (Mon, 07 May 2012) | 4 lines Pass maintainership of almost of my "p5-*" ports to "perl@". (I hope updating of them will be improved). ... DBD::Oracle has not been updated. (The updates that are there are related to Ports infrastructure & build/install.) Somebody needs to file a PR to update the port. (Tsk, tsk [0,1].) - parv [0] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ [1] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?component=Individual%20Port%28s%29&product=Ports%20%26%20Packages --