Re: Perl & dpkg

1997-12-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On 25 Dec 1997, William R Ward wrote: > Does anyone have a solution to this? I'd like to install the basic > Perl, and am fine with using .deb files for that, but wish to reserve > the right to upgrade using "perl -MCPAN -e shell" and its nifty > interface. > You could use the equivs package fro

Re: Perl & dpkg

1997-12-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I am working on a pre-alpha software that uses CPAN.pm, downloads the sources, and creates a .deb package for the sources. It does require the user to input a control file that contains information about dependencies, a package description, section, priority (standard, optional, ex

Perl & dpkg

1997-12-26 Thread William R Ward
I'm really unhappy with the way Perl and dpkg interact. I would like to use CPAN.pm to maintain my Perl distribution, rather than using dselect/dpkg, but some of the Debian modules require the .deb files for Perl modules such as libnet or libwww-perl. Does anyone have a solution to this? I'd lik