Vincent Danen wrote:
>
> On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Denis Havlik wrote:
>
> > :~>Is there a place one can get perl modules as RPMs for Mandrake? A buddy
> > :~>of mine sent me some for RedHat but they're a little dated... I just
> > :~>successfully made a new RPM for one of the newer modules I need to install
> > :~>a forum thingy on my website, but I was wondering if there was a place for
> > :~>Mandrake RPMs for perl modules? Does anyone know? If not, I may make a
> > :~>bit of a project for myself...
> >
> > I am using those from the rh - powertools/CPAN (second section).
> > Everything seems to work OK. If you really need the newest and greatest, I
> > am afraid you will have to go to cpan and do it yourself for most of the
> > things.
>
> That's what I was afraid of... does Mandrake have the equivalent in it's
> powerpack? Or is RedHat's powertools the only source for perl module
> RPMs?
If you have an earlier source RPM, You can probably just drop the
newer source package in place of the older in the SOURCES directory,
make the appropiate changes in the spec file and then do an 'rpm -ba
<specfile>' I've done this on a few perl packages myself.
For details see: http://www.rpm.org/support/RPM-HOWTO.html
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