On Mar 27, 2009, at 7:05 PM, Tom Metro <[email protected]> wrote:
I usually resort to a source install if a package isn't available,
but presumably the right way to handle it is to use a tool that
repackages CPAN modules as Debian packages. Supposedly there is such
a tool floating around.
Given the way CPAN modules seem to be quite interconnected in a web
of dependencies, it's somewhat amazing that they can create as few
Debian packages as they do, without the dependencies forcing them to
package up most of CPAN. :-)
I've actually had a surprising amount of success packaging many CPAN
modules for various Debian relatives by using CPANPLUS to resolve abd
fetch dependencies, then packaging using dh-make-perl
There is a cpanplus plugin that does this already but it's not part of
the ubuntu repos so you have to install via cpan anyway :-/
BTW: aptitude has many advantages over apt-get. I won't go into detail
but it's *much* better at handling dependencies esp. with distro
upgrades
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