I did some research on CPAN v Debian recently since I want to try Maypole on a Debian system. (Not at work -- my research project is on Debian on Alpha 20264, 64-bit Perl, whee)
PerlMonks has an article on the hazards of breaking the Perl that Debian itself relies upon for it's package management - http://perlmonks.thepen.com/285799.html There is a tool to make CPAN and Debian play nicely, dh-make-Perl. "Debian can create .debs of CPAN modules using dh-make-perl. debaux also has experimental support for downloading Perl modules from CPAN" http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/cpan.html There is a nice article on the nitty-gritty details of making CPAN and Debian play nicely using that dh-make-perl tool on the Maypole list. * http://lists.netthink.co.uk/pipermail/maypole/2004-September/000685.html * Google Cache http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:tR9cUTiEgU8J:lists.netthink.co.uk/p ipermail/maypole/2004-September/000685.html++site:lists.netthink.co.uk+d ebian+maypole&hl=en I've loaded Perl and MySQL from Debian Testing (Sarge), and will take Maypole from Unstable (Sid). I won't need to reproduce the above procedure for Maypole, I hope, since the author is sharing his Maypole .deb's -- but I will be able to use it to mark dependencies on my own created modules and any other CPAN stuff that isn't in .Deb's yet. William Ricker Principal Consultant (swe/dev), Architecture & Technology Fidelity Investments / FPCMS / Systems -- Not speaking for the firm -- * 617-563-O648 William d0t Ricker 4T FMR d0t c0m _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
