On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Steve Scaffidi <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
when i said CPAN2 i obviously meant CPANPLUS > 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 :-/ or debian source repository? > 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 with debian, apt-get dist-upgrade is always to be used instead of upgrade, but Aptitude may be better still. On Ubuntu, we usually use the ubuntu upgrade manager. but for ssh patching servers, i usually just do apt-get. which reminds me .... -- Bill [email protected] [email protected] _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
