In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> I've just started looking at openpkg, so please excuse me if I've
> missed something.
No problem.
> Is there a method for automatically creating .spec files from CPAN
> modules? We would like to install quite a lot of CPAN modules via rpm
> (which would give us better dependencies and versioning than using
> CPAN.pm) and this would make life a lot, lot easier.
>
> I also noticed that there are quite a few Perl modules already
> included in the standard perl distribution for openpkg. Is this list
> likely to change, or can I rely on them always being present?
Currently there is no way to automatically create .spec files to
package CPAN modules, although all of our perl-xxx.spec files we have
in OpenPKG-CURRENT look very similar (they all have the same prolog and
epilogs. So you can just take a simple one like perl-term.spec and use
it as a template.
The modules included in our current "perl" package are already under
consideration to be moved to their own "perl-xx" packages. So you can
be sure that we do not remove a module at all, but it is likely that
they move from "perl" to "perl-xx" to be consistent with the other
modules. My current idea is to create a "perl-std" package where all
those standard and self-contained modules are collected.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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www.engelschall.com
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