On Dec 13, 2010, at 6:06 PM, Gary Greene wrote: > On 13/12/10 9:43 AM, "John Arends" <jare...@illinois.edu> wrote: >> CPAN makes me cranky, but trying to package all the perl modules as RPMs >> makes me crankier. It's like wrapping one packaging system around >> another one, and fighting with both of them. >> > > This is why I use cpan2rpm every time. > >> The reality is, every time RHEL updates perl, RT will break. I solve >> this by having an identical test system. I apply the updates, see what >> breaks, and then reinstall the perl modules in question using CPAN. > > This ALSO can be avoided, if you know how to package your cpan2rpm packages > in site instead of vendor locations. This allows that NONE of the issues > that are endemic of RHEL's busted Perl packaging to cause long term > headaches for me.
Do you know of a guide that explains how to do this?
