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). -- -- dag wieers, dag at centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]