On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 20:41 -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > Ville Skytt�rote: > > On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 15:36 +1000, Rob Kearey wrote: > > > > > >>CPAN+ can build debian packages with CPANPLUS::Dist. Would it be > >>worthwhile creating an RPM target? > > > > > > Would it offer something that cpan2rpm or RPM-Specfile already don't? > > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-perl-devel-list > Chip has expressed that he wants to fix cpanflute2 (shipped in Core) to > do exactly what we want. Let's get him on this list. Hey Chip this is > the Fedora Project perl team's devel list. I aim to keep list traffic > here low noise through strict moderation and zero tolerance for bullshit. > > While cpanflute2 writing specs closer to the Fedora Project perl spec > template would help us, it will never be a fully automated process. > Each package needs to be analyzed to disable part or whole of "make > test" because it is inappropriate to run network tests in the build > system. Other packages need to be told the location of other non-perl > software and stuff. Even if we can't fully automate the process, the more we can automate, the better. My question is: which of the available tools[1] should we focus on? If Chip is looking to work on cpanflute2, that would be great. A CPANPLUS::Dist::RPM module would be useful for installing Perl modules as RPMs created on-the-fly, but that's not quite what we need in Fedora Extras. -- Dennis 1. http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/perl/specfiles/#TOOLS
