On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Rob Redpath <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm probably being an idiot, but I'm experiencing something odd with > perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker. I'm building an RPM that needs a more recent > ExtUtils::MakeMaker than the one provided with my distribution (CentOS 5.9), > so I went searching for a suitable RPM, finding one on repoforge. However, > while the file exists on pkgs.repoforge.org ( > http://pkgs.repoforge.org/perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker/ ), it doesn't appear to > be available through any of the repoforge repos for my distribution - > rpmforge, rpmforge-extras or rpmforge-testing. I've checked that it's not an > issue with my local yum installation - the package isn't present in the XML. > > What am I missing? > > Thanks > > Rob
CentOS 6? I'm not sure of the specific issues with this package, but it's very difficult to keep your CPAN modules up to date with the latest dependencies if you're working on a core OS that is 7 years old. It will eat an ever increasing amount of your time to try and keep Perl components updated. Been there, done that, got the consulting fees. Now, if you just need more recent contemporary packages for CentOS 6, I've got a build toolchain for RT 4 over at https://github.com/nkadel/rt4repobuilder/. A number of those components *do* upgrade built-in CentOS packages, so much of it would have to go in rpmforge-extras. much as I would expect perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker to go there. But there's scertainly a working source package for perl-ExtUtils-Maker. _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.repoforge.org/mailman/listinfo/users
