p5 modules, get me started on one

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 05:41:16PM -0800, Scott Haneda said:
> On Jan 19, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote:
>
>>>
>>> perl5.setup             Pod-Escapes 1.04
>>
>> This is where the magic happens for a perl module port.  Basically  
>> you'll
>> want to do:
>>
>> perl5.setup   File::ReadBackwards 1.04
>>
>> (since 1.04 appears to be the current version).  This then causes  
>> several
>> bits for the port to be set automatically:  name (to p5-file- 
>> readbackwards),
>> version, info on how to download from CPAN, and how to build and  
>> install it.
>> The rest of the info in this port is descriptive and the checksums.
>
>
> What is the best way to get the checksum, just download it and md5 it in 
> the shell?

'port -d checksum' when you're in the port directory, it'll give all
relevate checksum values for the file it downloaded for the port.

Bryan