Carsten Otte wrote:
Giorgio Bellussi wrote:
With cpan2rpm (http://sourceforge.net/projects/cpan2rpm/) you can build
your rpm from CPAN tar.gz archive. Some package requires some additional
work but in my (poor) experience the tool works fine with most of them.
Just in case Dag misses your needs.
Alien works fine for me. Can convert between all important package formats.
Quoted description from freshmeat.net:
Alien converts between the rpm, deb, Stampede slp, and
Slackware tgz file formats. If you want to use a package
from another distribution than the one you have installed
on your system, you can use alien to convert it to your
preferred package format and install it.
However, it cannot
1. Cope with different file placements (SUSE has slightly different
places for documentation, for example)
2. Copy with scripts and triggers that might make Bad Assumptions
3. Properly resolve dependencies, whether because of different package
names (most distros use "kernel" whereas *buntu use linux, for example).
Building the source rpm properly fixes the third, and the others can be
resolved by inspection and (maybe) modification of the spec file.
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Cheers
John
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