On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 09:52:35PM -0800, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote: > On Dec 11, 2007, at 9:36 PM, James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > >> cpan will resolve dependencies, sometimes a lot of them it seems, and >> works quite well most of the time. If there are problems, you >> sometimes have to fetch a tarball and do the make and install by hand >> -- but that's somewhat rare (YMMV). > > A much better solution, if you want to stick to RPMs, is to use cpan2rpm: > > http://perl.arix.com/cpan2rpm/ (first hit on google) > > It's a nice wrapper for CPAN that builds the modules as RPMs on your > system.
A nicer program for RH-ish systems is cpanspec. It generates much cleaner spec files, but I don't think it'll go as far as actually building the package for you. $ yum list cpanspec Available Packages cpanspec.noarch 1.73-1.fc8 fedora
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