On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 10:48, Paolo Campanella wrote: > Thanks - that helped. I use cpan2rpm, and after reading your references, > it occurred to me to check if the author had also been through a similar > train of thought, and he had ;) Although cpanflute2's approach looks cleaner to me (cpan2rpm installs to arch-specific while cpanflute2 uses site_perl), so I'm definitely going to try cpanflute2 as an alternative for this job (the devil I don't know ;) The main reason I haven't tried cpan2flute2 before is that it was so hard to find in the past that I presumed it was not very actively maintained. The situation has not changed much - it's still a bit rough that one has to trawl through mailing list posts to find the sucker - try Googling for "cpanflute2". It would really benefit from a home/project page somewhere. Future readers of this archived thread: try "RPM::Specfile" instead.
