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. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!