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+date = "2014-09-18T05:09:12-07:00"
+title = "Perl, Modules, and Package Management"
+slug = "perl-modules-and-package-management"
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+So, even though I have been starting to
+[work with \<back2freebsd-maybe\>]{role="doc"}
+[FreeBSD \<freebsd-switch\>]{role="doc"}
+[again \<one-step-closer\>]{role="doc"} , I am still running
+[ArchLinux](http://www.archlinux.org/) on my workstation.
+
+And I wanted to run a script I wrote a long time ago to support a
+[website](http://www.donaldharper.com/) of mine, which I have not
+updated in a while. The way I would update the site is by doing some
+batch editing of photos, park them in a directory, and then run my
+script which pushes the photos to the web server, and then interfaces
+with the CMS software to schedule the posts and all is good.
+
+Except the script is in perl, and it uses some modules which are not
+main-stream. While perl has the awesome **cpan(1perl)** command to fetch
+and install perl modules, I wanted it to be tied into **pacman(8)** . A
+quick trip to the [AUR](http://aur.archlinux.org/) turned up the tools
+[cpan2aur](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-cpanplus-dist-arch-git/)
+and
+[mkaurball](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pkgbuild-introspection-git/)
+which made it pretty easy to package up and post the the AUR the 9 perl
+modules I needed to get my script going and keep track of things with
+pacman.
+
+Yeah!