> e) Some of the perl stuff which is needed (and thus taken > from perl-CPAN) is also available on base/update/dag/dries > in RPM form. These are obviously preferred, so > it would be nice if as many as possible perl packets > which will later be needed could be installed beforehand > (still working on this part and minimizing packages > take from perl-CPAN, is there an auto perl-CPAN to rpm tool?) Yes. It is. Progam is called "cpanflute2" and perl module is RPM-Specfile, I use version 1.17 and it builds perfectly on CentOS4. Usage is simple: cpanflute2 MODULE.tar.gz creates perl-MODULE.src.rpm and the rest is obvious. -- Sincerely Ivo Panacek