I'm working on developing some stuff in Perl on my box, which works fairly well unless I go to update my system. Anytime I do, I get the following error from portmanager:
`rCreateInstalledDbVerifyContentsFile 0.4.1_9 error: "@comment ORIGIN:" not found in /var/db/pkg/bsdpan-$MODULE_NAME`
Where $MODULE_NAME is one of the modules I've installed via CPAN, instead of using the FreeBSD ports system. It will advise me to delete the package and then try manually reinstalling it - which works, *if* I install the Ports version. Then running portmanager again will just pick the next module from the list, and go on, until I've uninstalled everything I installed via CPAN and installed it from Ports.
Which would be fine, if annoying, if everything actually was available in Ports. But it's not: I'm using several modules that aren't available from Ports, and of course the modules I'm *developing* aren't available from Ports.
So, is there any way to *avoid* getting that error? Some way where I can actually use the ports system to keep my stuff up to date? (Even if it doesn't include the manually-installed software?) Or do I just have to avoid anything Perl-related from the Ports system and install everything manually? (Or - likely at that point - find a different OS to work on. It'd be less hassle to switch OSes than to try to make sure *nothing* using Perl is installed from the Ports.)
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