perl question

[Bart Silverstrim]

On Aug 13, 2004, at 1:10 AM, AlanSung wrote:

> IMHO, bsdpan-* means install via cpan directory (not via ports),
> p5-* means installed from ports......

Okay.  Nuts.  That's what I was afraid of.

I guess I was a little thrown because the bsdpan modules are showing up 
with portversion and portupgrade, which I had always associated with 
just the ports database and ports collection.

> And yes, if you can find expected module in ports tree, it is better
> install from ports than install from cpan driectly..

Okay...question...

When I set up this server, it was (at the time) just for the purpose of 
this portal server (web based).  I followed their directions for Linux 
and FreeBSD, and did it to the letter, etc...a lot of "install this and 
this from CPAN using this command line instruction..." etc. etc.

In this case, R'ing the F'ing M was apparently a bad idea :-(  Wish 
this server software were available as a port!

Anyway, I am tentatively hoping to replace the bsdpan modules with 
ports' p5 modules.  Is there a method AND ORDER to best attempt this, 
so the application (hopefully) won't break?  I don't want to install a 
p5 port and remove a bsdpan module only to have the bsdpan module erase 
parts of the p5 modules in the process :-(

-Bart