[CentOS] Setup a devel environment for perl modules

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Apr 1 20:44:19 UTC 2014


On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 1:50 AM, C. L. Martinez <carlopmart at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2014-April/141871.html
>
>  about the problems you can find building perl modules for CentOS
> releases (new or old).
>
>  I agree with John R. Pierce: cpan is very very bad tool ( in fact, I
> hate it) to build perl modules for CentOS systems, breaks all other
> perl modules. I need to use several perl modules in several servers in
> my dept. and after some tests, I migrate to FreeBSD due to easy
> install perl modules with poudriere suite.
>
>  But, anyone knows if it is possible to build a confident devel
> environment under  CentOS with some tool to build rpm's perl modules
> without breaking anything in CentOS systems??
>
>  Maybe, it is a good idea to create a CentOS Perl SIG :))

Pretty much everyone needs EPEL for something - so it is not enough to
not break anything in CentOS base, but you also need to not
break/conflict with/replace anything in EPEL.    So really, the best
approach would just be to add any missing modules to EPEL.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com



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