View the most recent changes for the p5-app-ack port at: p5-app-ack.darwinports.com/diff
Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for p5-app-ack.
The raw portfile for p5-app-ack is located here:
http://p5-app-ack.darwinports.com/dports/perl/p5-app-ack/Portfile
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The p5-app-ack Portfile 57296 2009-09-08 22:50:30Z toby macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0
PortGroup perl5 1.0

perl5.setup App-Ack 1.90
Platform: darwin
Maintainers: gkg.net:mschout openmaintainer
Description: A grep replacement that ignores .svn/CVS/blib directories
Long Description: ack is a tool like grep, aimed at programmers with large trees of heterogeneous source code.
Homepage: http://search.cpan.org/dist/ack/

distname ack-${version}
Checksums: md5 94d2790e5e3c74561ca0cd465a494db6 sha1 b329657754e34cc1aa51a2769ae081fca8183f53 rmd160 e180b3d3a50c04dcf296169f10076c3c0389d612

depends_lib-append port:p5-file-next

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/p5-app-ack
%  sudo port install p5-app-ack  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching p5-app-ack
--->  Verifying checksum for p5-app-ack
--->  Extracting p5-app-ack
--->  Configuring p5-app-ack
--->  Building p5-app-ack with target all

--->  Staging p5-app-ack into destroot

--->  Installing p5-app-ack

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using p5-app-ack with these commands:

%  man p5-app-ack
%  apropos p5-app-ack
%  which p5-app-ack
%  locate p5-app-ack

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