Quoting Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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.
Ah. That looks a lot better. Thanks.
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/
That looks useful. But it only took me 15 minutes to put together
Template::Plugin::RPM2
(http://search.cpan.org/dist/Template-Plugin-RPM2/) which is a thin TT
wrapper around the Perl module RPM2.
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
Lots of interesting reading there.
Thanks for all the help.
Dave...
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