On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:01 PM, David Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Smylers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David Golden writes: > > > Seems like a lot of headache. Why not just save the tarballs > > > somewhere? > > > > Were there tarballs in the first place? > > Presumably at some point, for modules that live on CPAN. > > > > Suppose a Fedora or Ubuntu user is wanting to check that upgrading the > > OS hasn't caused any test regressions, it's likely that at least some of > > the existing Perl modules were installed as RPMs or Debian packages, not > > by CPAN.pm from tarballs. > > Perhaps the tarball could be included with the RPM then and installed > in some standardized place. >
I think first we need to figure out how this should work when using CPAN.pm or CPANPLUS and then we can come with a recommendation for the case when the modules come as rpms or debs. For now I wrote on the Fedora list that IMHO the best is to have a separate "source" rpm that includes everything there was in the original tarball downloaded from CPAN. Gabor
