Re: [Boston.pm] RPM building (was: Bottom Up)
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 03:16:06PM -0500, Duane Bronson wrote: Is there a CPAN distribution just as there are Linux distributions? In other words, a collection of CPAN modules that one can install as a bundle rather than having to use the perl -MCPAN install module_that_wont_compile? ActiveState provides PPM which take a lot of pain out of CPAN since so much stuff just doesn't compile on Windows, but modules that don't compile are simply excluded from the PPM database. Also, some Linux distributions have packages that bundle a bunch of perl modules together, unfortunately, they only work with that Linux distro. I would prefer a standard distribution of modules for all platforms beyond the limited stuff that comes with the perl install. I don't know of any CPAN distributions. However, if you are on an RPM based system, you might try my ovid program http://search.cpan.org/~gyepi/Ovid-0.06/ovid which recursively converts CPAN modules into rpms by following dependencies. It makes a normally painful and tedious task very easy. It's rpm specific because that's what I usually use, but that needn't be. -Gyepi ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
Bundles, RPMs, Debs RE: [Boston.pm] RPM building (was: Bottom Up)
Is there a CPAN distribution just as there are Linux distributions? In other words, a collection of CPAN modules that one can install as a bundle rather than ] I don't know of any CPAN distributions. CPAN the library has a few bundles that are Bundles. CPANPLUS the Module will do the APT/RPM-like thing and install the pre-requisites for you. (There's a toolkit to produce Debian .Debs too, I mentioned it a week or two ago.) Bill ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
Re: [Boston.pm] RPM building (was: Bottom Up)
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 18:01:13 -0500, Gyepi SAM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 03:16:06PM -0500, Duane Bronson wrote: [...] I don't know of any CPAN distributions. However, if you are on an RPM based system, you might try my ovid program http://search.cpan.org/~gyepi/Ovid-0.06/ovid which recursively converts CPAN modules into rpms by following dependencies. It makes a normally painful and tedious task very easy. It's rpm specific because that's what I usually use, but that needn't be. The Debian equivalent is dh-make-perl. I haven't used it extensively, so I don't know how well it works. Cheers, Ben ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
