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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