2009/4/20 Oliver Charles <[email protected]>: > Hi all, > > I used to use Arch a while ago, and packaged quite a few Perl modules > [1]. After switching operating systems, I've come back to Arch - and I > need to be a good maintainer of my packages :) > > I remember when I wrote these how frustrating it was manually writing > just about every package for the dependancy tree. Personally, I'm of > the stance that you should choose one package manager and stick with > it - either all CPAN or fully Pacman/AUR. However, I've seen quite a > few packages that do not do this. Instead, they rely on the fact that > Build.PL and Makefile.PL are both capable of installing dependancies > from CPAN. > > Like I said, I personally don't like this approach of mixing 2 package > managers, it just seems like a recipe for confusing both package > managers. > > Could anyone shed some light on what the *correct* procedure is - and > also if there any tools out there that will scrape CPAN to build > packages, before I write my own (in Perl, of course ;) >
You can use perl-cpanplus-pacman [1] or pacpan [2] (webpage [3]). [1]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=5954 [2]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23495 [3]: http://xyne.archlinux.ca/info/pacpan
