On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:21:03 -0500 (EST), Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > from my perl guru friends, i know a lot of them install new perl > modules using CPAN. a *lot*. and it threw me a bit when i realized, > based on the last few posts, that installing those new modules via > CPAN won't satisfy RPM dependencies. >From my personal experience, lots of perl gurus (for some value of guru) compile their own perls as well. That said, I came across Ovid, a "collection of scripts for recursively converting perl CPAN modules into RPM files" but I didn't tried it yet : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Ovid/ >From what I know it would be possible to write a plug-in to the CPANPLUS module to produce and install RPMs. CPANPLUS already knows how to generate .debs and FreeBSD ports. _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
