On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 12:11:56PM -0500, Danny wrote: > I ran the following command from /usr/ports > > mx1# make search key="net::ldap" > Port: p5-ResourcePool-Resource-Net-LDAP-1.0002 > Path: /usr/ports/net/p5-ResourcePool-Resource-Net-LDAP > Info: A ResourcePool wrapper for Net::LDAP > Maint: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > B-deps: p5-Authen-SASL-2.07 p5-Convert-ASN1-0.18 p5-Digest-1.06 > p5-Digest-MD5-2.33 p5-IO-Socket-SSL-0.95 p5-MIME-Base64-3.01 > p5-Net-SSLeay-1.23 p5-ResourcePool-1.0103 p5-Storable-2.09 p5-URI-1.30 > p5-XML-SAX-Base-1.04 p5-perl-ldap-0.30 > R-deps: p5-Authen-SASL-2.07 p5-Convert-ASN1-0.18 p5-Digest-1.06 > p5-Digest-MD5-2.33 p5-IO-Socket-SSL-0.95 p5-MIME-Base64-3.01 > p5-Net-SSLeay-1.23 p5-ResourcePool-1.0103 p5-Storable-2.09 p5-URI-1.30 > p5-XML-SAX-Base-1.04 p5-perl-ldap-0.30 > > But, I do not think this is what I am looking for - referencing: > http://www-personal.umich.edu/~malth/gaptuning/postfix/ > > Anyway, what's the best way to search for a Perl module in the ports, > such as Net::LDAP, and if I can't find it, what would Plan B, be?
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.
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.
Cheers,
Matthew
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