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• cpan2rpm-- (Score:2)

  by rafael (2125)

  So you use cpan2rpm ? I hate it. The produced specfile is unmaintainable, notably because it computes the filelist on the fly. But I'm anal (and I'm paid to produce good rpms of perl modules.)
  
  A few additionnal notes (I took the Template-Toolkit one) :
  
  * you must not set buildarch unless it's noarch, because rpm will figure it out by itself, and that might be a 64 bit platform, or a sparc, etc.
  
  * there are no BuildRequires, but a good tool would be able to generate them from the META.yml for example. (of cours
  • Re:cpan2rpm-- (Score:2)

    by davorg (18)

    So you use cpan2rpm ?

    Yeah. It was quick and easy (and already installed).

    I'm happy to look at other alternatives tho'. I keep meaning to look at Ovid [cpan.org] but I love to hear other suggestions.

    And thanks for the other suggestions. I'm really new to this and the current RPMs are provided very much on a "this works for me" basis - but I'll be working to raise the quality over the next few weeks.
    • Re:cpan2rpm-- (Score:1)

      by iburrell (4155) <ianburrellNO@SPAMgmail.com> on 2006.06.21 11:51 (#48338) Homepage Journal

      cpanspec, http://cpanspec.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net], is pretty good and produces more maintainable and standard specs. It is used for many of the perl modules in Fedora Extras. I have been using it for local packages and it works on almost every Perl modules.

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