[CentOS] PERL module woes

[Dag Wieers]

On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-01-06 at 16:50 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > Agreed - the stock RPM packages have the opposite problem - often not
> > being recent enough for apps you want to run.  Sometimes you
> > can find where someone else has done the work of packaging the
> > set of modules you need in versions that work together.  For example,
> > RT (Request Tracker) needs a huge number of perl modules that
> > aren't included in Centos, but:
> > http://wiki.bestpractical.com/index.cgi?RPMInstall has a link for
> > a simple yum install that gets everything, including a current
> > mod_perl for you.
> 
> RT is the only reason why I have always had to resort to CPAN for
> installing all of the required Perl dependencies on Red Hat based
> systems.  I've been doing it for a few years - not once have I had
> anything go wrong.
> 
> I've read plenty about how one should stick with RPMs on RPM based
> distros.  I've also read many times to avoid CPAN like the plague lest
> you want a ticking time bomb, but I had no choice when it came to RT (I
> have limited RPM packaging experience).
> 
> The RT RPM option is recent, and it's an excellent option.  However, at
> the moment I'm still running RT on a CentOS 4 box with all of RT's Perl
> dependencies installed from CPAN.  I'm now consolidating everything onto
> a RHEL 4 box running Xen, so it will be my opportunity to give the RPMs
> for RT a try.
> 
> Maybe now I won't feel so dirty for polluting my Red Hat box. :)

What packages do you need in addition to the ones already available from 
RPMforge ? I'm certainly interested to provide all of these if you send 
them to suggest at lists.rpmforge.net.

Kind regards,
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