[CentOS] cpan2rpm and alternatives
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Oct 28 18:20:10 UTC 2008
Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Geoff Galitz wrote:
>
>>> cpan2rpm is getting relatively old, compared to some of the newer
>>> things that can be done with the CPAN and RPM build procedures. The
>>> latest version isn't available on its sourceforge site and the
>>
>> What are the newer procedures? I'll be needing to do this in the very
>> near
>> future.
>>
>> I was contemplating writing some sort of yum plugin or external
>> utility that
>> can leverage whatever current procedures exist and register a CPAN
>> install
>> in the RPM database... but I'm not sure it is worth the effort and I do
>> realize that breaks the whole Centos testing and reliability model.
>> Still,
>> there are some functions cannot be found in the usual places that do
>> exist
>> in CPAN.
>
> Listing the RPM packages you need on the RPMforge mailinglist would be
> sufficient to have them added (where possible).
Is there any attempt at coordination between the packages in EPEL and
RPMforge?
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Les Mikesell
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