Hi, when installing modules I prefer to use the package management system of my operating system - Ubuntu in my case. I prefer that especially for complex packages or packages that require C compiler or have other external dependencies.
I cannot do that as many packages are missing even from Debian and Ubuntu. So I'd like to mix the two methods of installation: CPAN.pm and aptitude. This has been discussed earlier I just don't remember where so let me show an example: I am installing Smolder using CPAN.pm as it does not have a package in Ubuntu. For every dependency CPAN.pm is trying to install I'd like it to check if the package is available in Ubuntu and use "sudo aptitude install package-name" to install those packages. As I understood from Damyan Ivanov the dh-make-perl can give me a mapping from CPAN name to Debian name using either of these: dh-make-perl --locate Foo::Bar or Debian::AptContents find_perl_module_package I have not tried these but let's assume I have the mapping. How can I write a module (e.g. CPAN::Ubuntu) that - if installed - can take over the call to install a module in both when asked by the user or when triggered by a dependency and run the sudo ... instead? If the native package is not available it should proceed with the regular CPAN.pm installation. Is there anything in the working that can be used for this? What should be the name of such module ? regards Gabor
