James Olin Oden spake the following on 1/19/2007 11:26 AM: > On 1/19/07, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> > wrote: >> 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. >> > But many who are good with rpm use cpan2rpm or cpanflute. Why? > Because someone else already did all the work for us. If they lack we > patch them. This is the open source way (of course if they were > fundementally wrong we would do our own thing and unleash yet another > open source tool into the wild). > > Cheers...james True .. So true. Why go out and design a hammer when you really just wanted to hang a picture! I haven't tried cpanflute. Does it work any better? Or is it just a different hammer? -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!