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• cpan2rpm-- (Score:2)

  by rafael (2125) <{rgarciasuarez} {at} {gmail.com}> on 2006.06.21 6:01 (#48331) Homepage Journal

  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 course human tweaking would always be needed.) That makes the rpm difficult to rebuild by automated processes (or even by humans). (rpm is able to figure out some of the requires by itself.)

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  • 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:2)

      by rafael (2125)

      Another suggestion would be to write a CPANPLUS backend for that.
      
      Also, you might find this interesting :
      
      http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/PerlPolicy [mandriva.com]
      http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/perl/specfiles/ [uminho.pt]
      
      The 1st link is the policy to make perl rpms for Mandriva. We don't have exactly the same policy than FC, and we have a more recent rpm, with a perl dependency generator that has been patched a bit -- but the general rules should apply to FC too. I think the 2nd link is more or less official for FC.
    • Re:cpan2rpm-- (Score:1)

      by iburrell (4155)

      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.