On 03/03/2010 05:13 AM, R P Herrold wrote: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> Wait until you will want to address a "serious/critical" bugfix to a >> perl-module which carries a dependency on a perl-module you haven't kept >> in sync with CPAN => You'd have to resort to either "fastestly" upgrade >> a series of perl-modules or resort to other solutions (E.g. to >> deliberately remove versioned dependencies from rpm and try to get away >> without them.) > > oh, please -- simply this is simply FUD there; perl module > packaging against CPAN is not black art, Right, ... and we (the Fedora perl maintainers) push updates to assist you. That's why these updates are being pushed. > A trained eye and a minimal bit of work can yield a set of > grep based filters to 'see' such trivially; I run rpmbuild, > then a local helper wrapper: perl-rmbuild, and can knock out a > module in less than 5 minutes to current. I think the deepest > chain I have is perhaps 30 modules Well, the deepest chain I have is rt-3.x.x. It took several months of getting it into Fedora and is the origin of me maintaining ca. 50+ modules in Fedora. Ralf -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
