[Coming in rather late to this - only just joined the list] The spec files there are mine, generated by a substantially hacked cpan2rpm, which is intended to get the dependencies right to allow the stuff to build in a minimal build root (I happen to use mach, but it ought to work (more slowly) within mock too). Basically I leverage more of the information within the CPAN package itself to produce a whole pile of additional BuildRequires information, and add some Requires too. I've not come across cpan2spec up to now - will try and have a go at that and ideally merge anything needed into there for future use. A few packages need manual spec tweaking after cpan2rpm, although not many. For DBIx::Class the *big* problem dependency is SQL::Translator. I package this as one big lump - which gives it a ton of additional dependencies (ie graphviz etc). The ideal would be for it to be broken into smaller pieces, although there would still be problems then as what commands you had available would depend on which SQLT modules were online. There were a few problems with rpm mishandling deps/reqs when building the package. Biggest one of those found recently is where modules have multiple classes in them, some of which are hidden - see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204800 for my bug filed on that. [there is one of those in the Class::C3 stuff which breaks things nicely unless you have an explicit Provide in there] I am using this stuff at work, and can put some effort from there to package and update (since I have to do the basic work anyway at present). I also need to build for RHEL so any srpms need to be RHEL friendly from my point of view. Cheers Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]
