On 1/11/06, Post, Mark K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the RPM name has noarch in it, it means it does not contain any > binary files specific to a particular architecture. If it has i386, > s390x, or anything like that, it is almost guaranteed to not run on any > architecture other than the one specified. You might get lucky if > someone made a mistake and didn't mark something as noarch when they > should have, but I wouldn't count it working. > > If you don't use RPM to install something, RPM will *not* know about it. > So, no surprise there. If you want to install something that SUSE > doesn't provide, create a SRPM for it, and build a "binary" RPM from it. > Agree, my issue is that CPAN does not know than an RPM was installed. So when I am using the interactive session with CPAN and I do an "information" on an RPM installed perl module, it does not show it as installed. The RPM (-q) does show it as installed. I was hoping someone may know why the inconsistency. I would be curious if I install a perl module via RPM and the same via CPAN if it is not bound to cause problem. > > Mark Post > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yu > Safin > Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 6:39 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Some Doubts > > > Some doubts: (cross posted with the OpenSuSE forum) > 1) I am not clear as to why some rpm's are named i386 and some noarch. > eg) > perl-libwww-perl-5.801-8.noarch.rpm > perl-GDTextUtil-0.86-8.i386.rpm > > I suspect the i386 means Intel but when I install a perl i386 rpm on > my Mainframe z890 it works (under Linux). > 2) when I install some perl RPM's on my SuSe 9.3 from rpmpam I had no > problems. However, when I go into CPAN (perl -MCPAN -e shell), I find > that the rpm's for the perl modules are not showing up when I do an > "i" on the name (e.g. perl-AnyData-xxx.rpm was installed and then > under CPAN, "i AnyData"). > is this normal? > > I am trying to avoid using CPAN because I have been burned before when > I install and module that I need to remove later on. CPAN won't allow > me. > Another problem with CPAN is that I need to do it with me present, I > can't just automate the installation of a bunch of RPM's for new > servers. > > Any suggestions will be appreciated. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 >
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