On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 17:30:37 +0000, Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The convention is that a perl module Foo::Bar when turned into a port, > is called p5-Foo-Bar. This applies to the vast majority of perl > module ports: however there are some, largely historical exceptions > (and those usually don't obey the standard module naming conventions > on CPAN either). Examples of exceptions are: www/p5-libwww, > biology/p5-bioperl, p5-Nysql-modules and various other p5-lib<mumble> > ports.
Useful information, thank you. > On the specific question of Net::LDAP, the port you want is one of the > exceptions: net/p5-perl-ldap. I found that but doing: > > % make search name=ldap > > which turned up a couple of likely suspects. A quick check of the > pkg-plist confirmed that it was the right module: > > % less /usr/ports/net/p5-perl-ldap/pkg-plist > > Looking at the pkg-plist and pkg-descr file is usually enough to tell > you what you need to know when looking for the appropriate port. Works for me. Case closed. Thank you Dan and Matthew. ...D _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
