ASSP out of date

Scott Haneda talklists at newgeo.com
Thu Nov 6 00:30:41 PST 2008


On Nov 5, 2008, at 11:37 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Nov 6, 2008, at 01:34, Scott Haneda wrote:
>
>> On Nov 5, 2008, at 9:41 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>> Declare dependencies on those ports in the assp port. For example,  
>>> if they are library dependencies, write:
>>>
>>> depends_lib-append port:p5-perl-ldap
>>>
>>> You can discover that the port p5-perl-ldap exists by typing "port  
>>> search ldap" and looking through the results.
>>
>> Might as well just jump in and try to do the entire shebang.  There  
>> are a lot more optional perl modules than I thought.  What is the  
>> naming scheme for determining if they are available to ports?
>>
>> Here is the whole list:
>>
>> Net::DNS
>> Compress::Zlib
>> Digest::MD5
>> Email::MIME::Modifier new
>> Email::Valid
>> File::ReadBackwards
>> Mail::SPF new
>> Mail::SPF::Query
>> Mail::SRS
>> Net::CIDR::Lite new
>> Net::IP::Match::Regexp new
>> Net::LDAP
>> Net::SMTP new
>> Net::SenderBase new
>> Net::Syslog
>> Sys::Syslog
>> Tie::RDBM
>> Time::HiRes
>> Win32::Daemon
>
> In general, lowercase it, prepend "p5-", and replace "::" with "-".  
> So e.g. "Net::DNS" becomes "p5-net-dns".
>
>
>> I would assume, the Win32::Daemon is not needed, and that many of  
>> these may be available to the perl that ports already has in place,  
>> but I am not sure.
>>
>> Is it correct that case is a non issue in something like `port  
>> search net-dns`?  I see it finds it, but do I need to make sure  
>> case is correct when I declare a dependency.  I will maintain the  
>> case in the read me, but I would like to confirm that case in case  
>> the read me is in error, if it matters of course.
>
> "port search" should be case-insensitive, but you must declare  
> dependencies with the same case as it says in the port.

For each of those, would those be bin, lib or path?  I am thinking  
they are lib's but want to make sure they get stuffed in the right spot.

--
Scott



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