Comments on: Building RPMs from CPAN Distributions http://perlhacks.com/2010/02/building-rpms-from-cpan-distributions/ Just another Perl Hacker's blog Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:41:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Johann http://perlhacks.com/2010/02/building-rpms-from-cpan-distributions/#comment-7247 Johann Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:34:02 +0000 http://perlhacks.com/?p=45#comment-7247 >n3npq.jbj

I don’t understand why you have to identify dependencies for all *.pl scripts to create RPMs. Fedora / CentOS packagers are building RPMs for Perl modules, all of which are CPAN modules. Some CPAN modules may contain *.pl scripts, but Perl developers won’t be importing those scripts.

]]> By: n3npq.jbj http://perlhacks.com/2010/02/building-rpms-from-cpan-distributions/#comment-109 n3npq.jbj Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:42:12 +0000 http://perlhacks.com/?p=45#comment-109 The problem is that META.yml exists *only* for CPAN modules. RPM needs a general means to identify dependencies for all *.pl scripts. Hence the rather clunky means of using *RE’s applied to *.pl (and all #!/usr/bin/perl) scripts.
But if all you wish is full control of deps in CPAN modules, disabling %__perl_requires and %__perl_provides and using META.yml to generate CPAN *.spec files will most definitely “work”. Just insufficiently general.

]]> By: Perl Hacks http://perlhacks.com/2010/02/building-rpms-from-cpan-distributions/#comment-110 Perl Hacks Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:57:13 +0000 http://perlhacks.com/?p=45#comment-110 META.yml and Building RPMs

An email has flooded in. It was in response to my piece about Building RPMs from CPAN Distributions and it was from Andreas Koenig. Andreas runs PAUSE, which is the service CPAN authors use to upload stuff to CPAN, so…

]]> By: Dave Cross http://perlhacks.com/2010/02/building-rpms-from-cpan-distributions/#comment-108 Dave Cross Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:55:52 +0000 http://perlhacks.com/?p=45#comment-108 I find Centos (and, therefore, RHEL) unusable without additional repos. I use the EPEL which repackages Fedora RPMs for RHEL and its clones. I also find RPMForge useful, and there’s also my own repo.

]]> By: sigzero.myopenid.com http://perlhacks.com/2010/02/building-rpms-from-cpan-distributions/#comment-107 sigzero.myopenid.com Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:11:21 +0000 http://perlhacks.com/?p=45#comment-107 Where I bang my head is Fedora has a ton of Perl modules but RHEL has a scant few. It is maddening sometimes.
Is there a process by which we can get Red Hat to move modules into the server realm as well?

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