>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. -geoff