You can do all these things via CPAN.pm using the cpan binary. cpanm is very nice as well, here's some work I did with an off-system perl that provides stubs for automated testing and such:
https://github.com/reyjrar/optperl/tree/master/optperl.puppet This repo has a lot more stuff, like the RPM specfile for building the off-system perl without ridiculous dependency injection into your RPMDB. Generally speaking, you should manage CPAN Modules either *completely* with CPAN/CPANM/CPANPLUS or with a .rpm / .deb, never with both. The reason I mention this, is if you're mucking about with the included Perl on RedHat-based distributions you will introduce all sorts of pain upon yourself by installing *anything* with CPAN. On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:59 AM, chenlin rao <rao.chen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all! > I found some modules like App::CPANMinus, App::pmodinfo, > App::pmuninstall and so on. But why there aren't one CPAN module to do > these together? > I'm writing a puppet provider for cpan, but now I found I need to > pre-install several modules for '--list', '--install', '--update', > '--uninstall' while rubygems can do these all. > Any help? > -- Brad Lhotsky
