>> I am working on porting the package - Crypt-CBC.
>> [http://search.cpan.org/dist/Crypt-CBC/] This is in old-pending
>> repository as of now.
>>
>
> I'm sorry for my uniformness , but what is old-pending repository? Is
> there OSR review and ARC case available already?
>
>
Old pending repository is this link.
http://pkg.opensolaris.org/pending/en/search.shtml?token=crypt-cbc&action=Search
OSR and ARC are not there still.
>
>> The README in the link gives the prerequisites details as "In addition
>> to this module you will need to install the MD5 module, and one or more
>> of: Crypt::DES, Crypt::DES_EDE3, Crypt::IDEA,Crypt::Blowfish, or
>> Crypt::Rijndael modules". How will I find whether those prerequisite
>> packages of Crypt-CBC are found in OpenSolaris.? In which consolidation
>> [SFW ?] does this package come under ?
>>
>
> Digest::MD5 is standard part of any perl distribution.
>
> $ /usr/perl5/5.8.4/bin/perl -MDigest::MD5 -e 'print
> Digest::MD5::md5_hex("blah\n"), "\n"'
> 0d599f0ec05c3bda8c3b8a68c32a1b47
>
> $ echo blah | md5sum
> 0d599f0ec05c3bda8c3b8a68c32a1b47 -
>
>
>
How can I use this in my package ? Just include perl path or this is
packaged ? Apart from md5, other packages like blowfish and DES are
available ?
> However I'm afraid that we have no of the others in any consolidation.
> You would have to deliver them first.
>
Any idea on to which kind of consolidation it comes under [sfw/jds/ ... ?
> Out of interest, why do you want Crypt::CBC?
>
> Thank you
>
>
Thanks
Spoorthy