diff --git a/archivers/p5-IO-Zlib/Makefile b/archivers/p5-IO-Zlib/Makefile
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+++ b/archivers/p5-IO-Zlib/Makefile
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+# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.1.1.1 2002/08/02 20:44:50 jakob Exp $
+
+COMMENT=	"IO:: style interface to Compress::Zlib"
+
+DISTNAME=	IO-Zlib-1.01
+PKGNAME=	p5-${DISTNAME}
+CATEGORIES=	archivers perl5
+MASTER_SITES=	${MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN:=IO/}
+
+MAINTAINER=	Jakob Schlyter <jakob@openbsd.org>
+
+PERMIT_PACKAGE_CDROM=	Yes
+PERMIT_PACKAGE_FTP=	Yes
+PERMIT_DISTFILES_CDROM=	Yes
+PERMIT_DISTFILES_FTP=	Yes
+
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	:p5-Compress-Zlib->1.15:archivers/p5-Compress-Zlib
+RUN_DEPENDS=    ${BUILD_DEPENDS}
+
+CONFIGURE_STYLE=	perl
+
+.include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/archivers/p5-IO-Zlib/distinfo b/archivers/p5-IO-Zlib/distinfo
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+++ b/archivers/p5-IO-Zlib/distinfo
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+MD5 (IO-Zlib-1.01.tar.gz) = 914af0c54586d9e979fe03e5f1e341f0
+RMD160 (IO-Zlib-1.01.tar.gz) = ad4b031a2cb1fb6dc3caebcafa9c028d72d62887
+SHA1 (IO-Zlib-1.01.tar.gz) = d9cfcdf0db1774b2d6217438ce7bd1e00dfe8590
diff --git a/archivers/p5-IO-Zlib/pkg/DESCR b/archivers/p5-IO-Zlib/pkg/DESCR
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+This modules provides an IO:: style interface to the Compress::Zlib
+package. The main advantage is that you can use an IO::Zlib object in much
+the same way as an IO::File object so you can have common code that
+doesn't know which sort of file it is using.
diff --git a/archivers/p5-IO-Zlib/pkg/PLIST b/archivers/p5-IO-Zlib/pkg/PLIST
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+++ b/archivers/p5-IO-Zlib/pkg/PLIST
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+@comment $OpenBSD: PLIST,v 1.1.1.1 2002/08/02 20:44:50 jakob Exp $
+${P5SITE}/IO/Zlib.pm
+${P5ARCH}/auto/IO/Zlib/.packlist
+man/man3p/IO::Zlib.3p
+@dirrm ${P5ARCH}/auto/IO/Zlib