J. Potter wrote:
Hi List,
Is it possible to get an rpm built and added into the plus or dag repos for the perl module svn-notify? (Note: not the same as svn-notify-mirror.)
I know it's been brought up before that perl's internal CPAN build/install can cause serious conflicts with the rpm-based approach; if there are other / better ways of doing this in a standard fashion, please let me know.
Installing Perl modules modules via CPAN makes them "invisible" to RPM, which can lead to a whole lot of fun! I think this is generally referred to as "a bad thing" around here.
If I can't find an RPM for a Perl module on one of the third-party repositories, I usually use cpanflute2 to build an RPM, then install that. That way RPM knows all about the module and can handle it appropriately.
You need to install the perl-RPM-Specfile package from rpmforge to make this work. Next download (BUT DO NOT INSTALL) the tarball for the module in question from CPAN. The last step is to run cpanflute2 against the tarball to generate the SRPM and then use "rpmbuild --rebuild" to create the installable RPM. You can use cpanflute2 with the '--arch=' and '--buildall' switches to create the appropriate installable RPM directly, but I usually install the SRPM file, tweak the specfile to taste, and build the installable RPM from that.
There is some documentation out on the net for using this tool, but I don't have any links handy so fire up your browser and start hitting Google for more info!
Your mileage may vary!