Dennis Gregorovic <dgregor@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Here are some ideas off the top of my head: > * Have cpanflute2 discover if the package is noarch or not, and set up > the %build, %install, and %files sections accordingly. If you have perl-Archive-Tar and perl-Compress-Zlib (or is it perl-IO-Zlib these days?) installed, it will already do this. It is a lousy heuristic (walk the tarball, see if ther are any .xs, .c, or .h files), but in practice it works pretty much 100%. > * Have cpanflute2 query CPAN to automatically fill in %version, %URL, > %Source0 It should automatically fill in version, but cpanflute2 operates from the tarball, so it bases it on the version in the tarball's filename. > * Have cpanflute2 look for common doc files and add them to %docs It already does this too. It relies on the 'make install' of the perl module to copy them, but it does flag a variety of commonly named files as %doc. > The workflow I picture is: > $ cpanflute2 Test::AutoBuild > ... looking up Test::AutoBuild > ... downloading Test::AutoBuild-1.0.3 > ... examining Test-AutoBuild-1.0.3.tar.gz > ... writing perl-Test-AutoBuild.spec > $ emacs perl-Test-AutoBuild.spec > <visual inspection. make any needed changes> Ah, this is the rub. Right now, cpanflute2 operates on an already-provided tarball. You have to download it on your own. Downloading from CPAN is, unfortunately, not an entirely clean operation. At least, it wasn't last time I looked. You need to worry about mirrors, and about finding a module by a given name, etc. Unfortunately, as of now, there isn't a very clean way to do that from what I understand. cpan2rpm jumps through several different hoops to download packages; I'm just not sure that it is the right thing to do inside of cpanflute2. It is the area they can definitely say they are better, but I'm not sure I like the price of meeting them there. > This is similar to Ville's process. I'm just wondering how many of the > 'blanks' we can fill in automatically. > > Apologies in advance if any of these features are already implemented. No problem! Not like there is a page listing cpanflute2's features anyway :) Chip -- Chip Turner cturner@xxxxxxxxxxx
