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• Have you tried dh-make-perl? (Score:2)

  by grantm (164)

  I've been using Debian for quite a few years now and I've reached the position where I really don't like to install anything onto a machine that's not Debian packaged - if nothing else, it makes it easy to remove stuff :-)

  To build a Debian package from a CPAN distribution, just do something like this:

  dh-make-perl --build --cpan JSON::XS

  This will download the latest tarball from CPAN, unpack it, throw together a skeleton 'debian' directory, and then build the .deb package using the normal CPAN make; m
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by wirebird (8007)

    I've done that a little, but I think part of keeping them separate is that then the versions Debian expects are there for Debian-related stuff. But I dunno, exactly. That part's not my bailiwick.
    
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Aristotle (5147)

      In which case, if you are serious about that, you should compile your own Perl from source for use in your code; which would would also mean you wouldn’t have to configure any paths.
      • Re:Have you tried dh-make-perl? (Score:1)

        by wirebird (8007) <karen.cravensNO@SPAMgmail.com> on 2008.05.30 7:42 (#63094) Homepage Journal

        We've considered that, at least on the dev box.
        
        I've also considered pretending it's a Windows box: chmod 0777 everything, run as root, and reinstall from scratch every couple of weeks... just so I could ignore OS details until the Perl is finished. And also (okay, mostly) because it's fun to suggest that to a security-conscious sysadmin.
        

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