Dave Cross wrote:
I've just started to dabble with packaging RPMs from CPAN modules and
making them available for download (see http://rpm.mag-sol.com/). This
had brought up a number of questions that people on this list would
probably be best placed to answer.
1/ Currently I've been using cpan2rpm to build the RPMs. Are there any
better tools out there? What do you use to create RPMs from CPAN
distributions?
Try cpanspec (it's in Extras). I don't use it myself but I know a lot of
packages in Extras were built starting from a cpanspec package.
2/ Are there any good tools for building web pages from RPMs. I've
played with rpm2html but I don't want to my web pages to look like it's
still 1998. Something that interfaces with the Template Toolkit would be
great, and I'd be happy to write that if it doesn't already exist.
How about repoview, which is used by Fedpra Extras, e.g.:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/5/i386/repodata/
3/ I assume there are standards that define how CPAN modules should be
packaged for use with Fedora (I'm largely targeting Fedora - if the RPMs
work with other distributions then that's a bonus). Are they documented
somewhere?
Using cpanspec will give you a good starting point as I believe it's
based on the Fedora perl package template. The packages should meet the
general packaging guidelines
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines) and some tips for
perl packages in particular can be found at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Perl
Paul.
