[CentOS] Re: http://www.net-dns.org/ and perl-Net-DNS-0.48-1 upgradedirection needed

Scott Silva

ssilva at sgvwater.com
Fri Jan 19 19:22:35 UTC 2007


R Lists06 spake the following on 1/18/2007 5:25 PM:
>> I just built it with cpan2rpm. It took less than 2 minutes.
>> I can send you an rpm off list if that will help you.
>> --
>>
> 
> That would be nice, or learning how to do it.
> 
> Question(s)
> 
> how does cpan2rpm know that I am using centos 4 and associated libraries and
> even more importantly, which perl modules I am using or what perl modules
> that need to be used in the latest incarnation?
> 
cpan2rpm basically seems to be a wrapper that pulls the source from cpan,
builds a simple spec file, and tries to do an rpmbuild on the source.
If you were good with rpm, you could do it all yourself.

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