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Perl Modules as RPM Packages

Posted by michael on from the my-own-catapult dept.

libertynews writes "KPLUG President Kevin Pedigo has just announced his latest project -- RPMPAN, an archive of CPAN Perl modules in RPM format, generated nightly."

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  1. perl with RPM lovin' ? by imag0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can see where this can go wrong...

    # rpm -i myperl.rpm

    warning: libsomeshit.so not installed

    # rpm -i --force myperl.rpm

    warning: libsomeshit.so not installed

    # rpm -i --force --nodeps myperl.rpm

    segfault. core dumped.

    # rm -rf /

    1. Re:perl with RPM lovin' ? by Aliencow · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's more like:
      # rpm -Uvh myperl.rpm
      warning: libsomeshit.so not installed
      # rpm -Uvh myperl.rpm someshitlib.rpm
      warning: libXML is missing
      # rpm -Uvh myperl.rpm someshitlib.rpm libxml.rpm
      warning: mozilla is missing

      Then you go berserk. You mirror rpmfind, rpm -Uvh *.rpm, end up with multiple versions of crap in different places, and corrupt the UNIVERSE.

    2. Re:perl with RPM lovin' ? by evil_roy · · Score: 4, Funny

      Now don't go countering all this FUD with facts. This is /. .Anti rpm posts are very important, it is yet another bias that helps the zealots feel better than others.