On May 12, 2016, at 9:14 AM, Anand Buddhdev anandb@ripe.net wrote:
curl -L http://cpanmin.us | perl - App::cpanminus -L
cpanminus is already packaged for EL7. It just isn’t installed by default.
$ sudo yum install perl-App-cpanminus
This way, cpanminus is installed first
You can list perl-App-cpanminus in a BuildRequires rule to tell rpmpbuild that it’s needed to build the RPM. Then you don’t have a command soaking up CPU time and network I/O on each RPM build.
Now, JSON::backportPP and Moose::Conflicts are part of JSON and Moose, respectively. However, those specific modules hide themselves from /usr/lib/rpm/perl.prov, by doing this:
package # hide from PAUSE Moose::Conflicts;
and
package # This is JSON::backportPP JSON::PP;
This is annoying. Does anyone have any idea on how to fix this?
Add a Requires line for perl-JSON or perl-JSON-PP to the spec file, and the same for perl-Moose. That will make yum seek those dependencies out and install them before your RPM.
Because perl-Moose is in EPEL, this does add an implicit dependency on EPEL, but from your post it seems you’re already depending on it.
Can I get away with manually adding:
Provides: JSON::backportPP Moose::Conflicts
Only if your package does in fact include those Perl distributions. But given that perl-JSON and perl-Moose are available separately, I don’t see why you’d want to do that.