Thanks :) I completely agree - for preference I wouldn't be building packages for CentOS 5 but right now I need to work with what I've got.
The weird thing is that there is a package of a suitable version of ExtUtils::MakeMaker for el5 (perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.56-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm) but it just doesn't appear to be available in the actual repo. As a stop-gap I can just download the RPM from pkgs.repoforge.org into my build env, but it's weird that it's not appearing in the repo. On 4 February 2014 11:58, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Rob Redpath BSc MA MBCS Senior Systems Engineer World Wide Web Hosting LLC http://wwwh.com | http://robredpath.co.uk
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