On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 02:27:50PM +1000, George Michaelson wrote:
> 
> First is a suggestion from 2002, PR 17684 -This was a set of
> diffs to pkgsrc/lang/perl which adds in the FreeBSD 'BSDPAN'
> modification to make all CPAN and perl Makefile.PL installs create
> valid packaging trails. -The code from 2002 isn't online any more, but
> I think can be easily re-created. 
> 
> This would hugely help me, in tracking local code installation and
> replicating it across multiple hosts. I think it would help a lot of
> other people too.

This was briefly discussed earlier this month:

	http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2005/06/07/0058.html
	http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2005/06/08/0009.html
	http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2005/06/08/0015.html

To summarize, I think BSDPAN is the wrong way to solve the problem
you're describing.

	Cheers,

	-- Johnny Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org>