Bob, a google found this... no clue if there is a followup or if it's been
improved on. But it answers the question.
Seth
[ANNOUNCE] automatic perl module building from CPAN
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Subject: [ANNOUNCE] automatic perl module building from CPAN
From: Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Date: Fri Feb 16 2001 - 11:47:39 CET
Sorry about the crosspost, but this is probably of interest to three
groups of people for different reasons.
1. Users:
I have just written CPAN::Debian, a perl module that allows you to download
and build fairly good Debian packages automatically of (almost) anything in
CPAN.
A sample run is probably the best explination. Warning, CPAN is pretty
verbose, and so is building a debian package; the result is pretty spammy.
joey@kite:~>perl -mCPAN::Debian -e shell
cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.52)
ReadLine support enabled
cpan> makedeb Coy
Going to read /home/joey/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Going to read /home/joey/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
Scanning cache /home/joey/.cpan/build for sizes
There's a new CPAN.pm version (v1.59) available!
[Current version is v1.52]
You might want to try
install Bundle::CPAN
reload cpan
without quitting the current session. It should be a seamless upgrade
while we are running...
Going to read /home/joey/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
CPAN: MD5 loaded ok
Checksum for
/home/joey/.cpan/sources/authors/id/D/DC/DCONWAY/Coy-0.05.tar.gz ok
Coy-0.05/
Coy-0.05/lib/
Coy-0.05/lib/Lingua/
Coy-0.05/lib/Lingua/EN/
Coy-0.05/lib/Lingua/EN/Hyphenate.pm
Coy-0.05/lib/Lingua/EN/Inflect.pm
Coy-0.05/lib/Coy.pm
Coy-0.05/demo/
Coy-0.05/demo/demo.pl
Coy-0.05/Changes
Coy-0.05/Makefile.PL
Coy-0.05/README
Coy-0.05/MANIFEST
Removing previously used /home/joey/.cpan/build/Coy-0.05
dh_testdir
perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for Coy
/usr/bin/make OPTIMIZE="-O2 -g -Wall"
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/joey/.cpan/build/Coy-0.05'
mkdir blib
mkdir blib/lib
mkdir blib/arch
mkdir blib/arch/auto
mkdir blib/arch/auto/Coy
mkdir blib/lib/auto
mkdir blib/lib/auto/Coy
mkdir blib/man3
cp lib/Coy.pm blib/lib/Coy.pm
cp lib/Lingua/EN/Hyphenate.pm blib/lib/Lingua/EN/Hyphenate.pm
cp lib/Lingua/EN/Inflect.pm blib/lib/Lingua/EN/Inflect.pm
Manifying blib/man3/Coy.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/Lingua::EN::Hyphenate.3pm
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/joey/.cpan/build/Coy-0.05'
/usr/bin/make test
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/joey/.cpan/build/Coy-0.05'
No tests defined for Coy extension.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/joey/.cpan/build/Coy-0.05'
touch build-stamp
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_clean -k
/usr/bin/make install
PREFIX=/home/joey/.cpan/build/Coy-0.05/debian/libcoy-perl/usr
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/joey/.cpan/build/Coy-0.05'
Installing
/home/joey/.cpan/build/Coy-0.05/debian/libcoy-perl/usr/share/perl5/Coy.pm
Installing
/home/joey/.cpan/build/Coy-0.05/debian/libcoy-perl/usr/share/perl5/Lingua/EN
/Hyphenate.pm
Installing
/home/joey/.cpan/build/Coy-0.05/debian/libcoy-perl/usr/share/perl5/Lingua/EN
/Inflect.pm
Installing
/home/joey/.cpan/build/Coy-0.05/debian/libcoy-perl/usr/share/man/man3/Coy.3p
m
Installing
/home/joey/.cpan/build/Coy-0.05/debian/libcoy-perl/usr/share/man/man3/Lingua
::EN::Hyphenate.3pm
## Differing version of ./Coy.pm found. You might like to
rm /usr/lib/perl5/Coy.pm
## Differing version of Lingua/EN/Hyphenate.pm found. You might like to
rm /usr/lib/perl5/Lingua/EN/Hyphenate.pm
## Differing version of Lingua/EN/Inflect.pm found. You might like to
rm /usr/lib/perl5/Lingua/EN/Inflect.pm
## Running 'make install UNINST=1' will unlink all those files for you.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/joey/.cpan/build/Coy-0.05'
dh_installdocs README
dh_installchangelogs Changes
dh_strip
dh_compress
dh_fixperms
dh_installdeb
dh_perl
dh_shlibdeps
dh_gencontrol
dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${shlibs:Depends}
perl -i -pe 's/(Depends: .*), $/$1/' debian/libcoy-perl/DEBIAN/control
dh_md5sums
dh_builddeb --destdir=/home/joey
dpkg-deb: building package `libcoy-perl' in
`/home/joey/libcoy-perl_0-1_i386.deb'.
cpan> exit
Lockfile removed.
joey@kite:~>dpkg --info libcoy-perl_0-1_i386.deb
new debian package, version 2.0.
size 29340 bytes: control archive= 908 bytes.
299 bytes, 12 lines control
637 bytes, 9 lines md5sums
269 bytes, 8 lines * postinst #!/bin/sh
200 bytes, 6 lines * prerm #!/bin/sh
Package: libcoy-perl
Version: 0-1
Section: interpreters
Priority: optional
Architecture: i386
Depends: perl
Installed-Size: 90
Maintainer: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description: Like Carp - only prettier
The Coy perl module from CPAN.
.
This package was automatically created by CPAN::Debian.
joey@kite:~>lintian libcoy-perl_0-1_i386.deb
W: libcoy-perl: executable-not-elf-or-script
./usr/share/perl5/Lingua/EN/Inflect.pm
W: libcoy-perl: executable-not-elf-or-script
./usr/share/perl5/Lingua/EN/Hyphenate.pm
W: libcoy-perl: executable-not-elf-or-script ./usr/share/perl5/Coy.pm
The lintian warnings are actually bogus, lintian is just not aware of the
newest perl policy yet. This libcoy-perl is _almost_ as good a package
as the one I maintain in the Debian archive, but I don't think I'm out of a
job quite yet :-) -- having a human make the package adds so many nice
little
touches that my program cannot do. It's great if you need a perl module
package quick though, and want to keep everything in .deb form.
Oh, and it utterly depends on the latest perl packages in unstable. Nothing
else will do. Bod has done great things with MakeMaker, which was really
what
made this possible.
2. Developers:
It's also possible to just debianize a module, yeilding a debianized
source tree and not building a deb. Developers may find this to be a
decent starting point at making a debian package of something in CPAN, for
release into Debian. For example:
perl -m CPAN::Debian -le 'CPAN::Shell->expand("Module",shift)->debianize'
Term::Slang
3. Perlers:
So I'd like to get this module into Debian, but the question is: where?
I think getting it properly integrated into CPAN.pm, where it really
belongs,
is doubtful. (Unless Bod wants to maintain a large patch to CPAN.pm?
Hahaha.)
It could be dropped right into the debian perl package and work as-is, if
Bod wants to do that.
Or I could make a standalone package of it, which seems overkill for one
file.
The module can be downloaded for now from
http://cvs.kitenet.net/joey-cvs/src/CPAN/Debian.pm
--
see shy jo, who is ready to throttle CPAN for its insessient
"There's a new CPAN.pm version (v1.59) available!"
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Original Message -----
From: Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 2:56 PM
Subject: [EUG-LUG:959] Debian and CPAN
> What's the way to install CPAN Perl modules under Debian?
>
> I have a recently constructed Debian server (Thanks, Mike!) which
> does not have the Perl module Image::Info installed. I need to get
> Image::Info -- what's the best way to get it?
>
> I searched for all the variations on Image::Info that I could
> think of using "apt-cache search".
>
> Do I run "perl -MCPAN shell" at this point, or is there a Debian
> standard way of getting Perl modules?
>
> --
> Bob Miller K<bob>
> kbobsoft software consulting
> http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
