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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. BSDPAN by Moridineas · · Score: 4, Informative

    Already like this on FreeBSD systems. Called BSDPAN. Perl can be installed through the ports tree, and upgraded as easily.

  2. Re:Huh? by jsprat · · Score: 4, Informative
    it *is* nice to have this sort of stuff managed by your package manager.


    Yes, it is. Check out cpan2rpm.

    The best of both worlds - modules built locally, with rpm ease of installation and de-installation.

  3. Re:Huh? by Bluetrust25 · · Score: 4, Informative

    > 1) CPAN isn't flawless: yesterday, I tried using it to install File::Temp and it tried upgrading perl from 5.6 to 5.8. That simply isn't the correct thing to do, under any circumstance.

    I've found through experience with just this very thing that the first command run through CPAN should be:

    perl -MCPAN -e shell
    install Bundle::CPAN

    Upgrading to the newest version is necessary to get it to leave perl the hell alone.

    So once you get past that hurdle, I find the worst part about CPAN is that some packages which everyone uses like mod_perl, DBI, and DBD::mysql fail to install unless Apache was compiled the correct way and currently running, or MYSQL is running and allows some bullshit nameless user to access all databases (!)

    In RedHat Linux 7.x (maybe 8.x and later too), the mod_perl RPM is installed by default, but Apache isn't compiled correct to play nicely with it. So if you want to actually use mod_perl's features (i.e. install Bundle::apache in CPAN) then you have to uninstall apache and compile it by hand.

    Frustrat-o-rama.

    But in general, CPAN rocks. If it wasn't for CPAN then perl wouldn't be as popular as it is today. Why, just earlier this evening I was thinking that I'd love for users of a web app I'm working on to be able to import data from Excel files rather than just comma-delimited, I did a quick search at search.cpan.org and WHAM, one 'install Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Simple' later and now users can upload Excel files. I can't think of any other language that makes it this easy to find and reuse libraries.

    CPAN makes me look like I'm really good at what I do.

  4. Re:perl with RPM lovin' ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Oh yeah, like any other package system is different. You want to experience the same fun on FreeBSD? Try the following which I did last week:

    portinstall -v p5-DateTime-Format-ISO8601

    Pretty innocent right? I mean what the fuck is involved in parsing dates? The library *I* wrote to parse an ISO8601 subset was about two pages long. You know, dates/times like '2003-05-24' '05-25' 'T12:23:45Z' etc.

    Well, after a "little while" here's what it pulled in:

    p5-Archive-Tar-1.03
    p5-Attribute-Handlers-0.78
    p5-Class-Factory-Util-1.4
    p5-Class-Singleton-1.0 3
    p5-Compress-Zlib-1.22
    p5-DateTime-0.16
    p5-Dat eTime-Format-Builder-0.75
    p5-DateTime-Format-ISO8 601-0.03
    p5-DateTime-Format-Strptime-1.0302
    p5-D ateTime-Locale-0.03
    p5-DateTime-TimeZone-0.25
    p5 -ExtUtils-ParseXS-2.02
    p5-File-Find-Rule-0.11
    p5 -IO-stringy-2.108
    p5-Module-Build-0.19
    p5-Number -Compare-0.01
    p5-Params-Validate-0.64
    p5-Pod-Esc apes-1.03
    p5-Pod-Simple-0.96
    p5-Test-Builder-Tes ter-0.09
    p5-Test-Harness-2.28
    p5-Test-Pod-0.95
    p5-Test-Simple-0.47_1
    p5-Text-Glob-0.05
    p5-Text- Tabs+Wrap-2001.0929
    p5-Time-Local-1.07
    p5-YAML-0 .35

    Can't wait to install some of these Perl RPMs on my Red Hat box........ (in this sentence, "can't wait" means "I'm not going to fucking touch this crap")

  5. Re:Uninstall? by PghFox · · Score: 5, Informative

    CPANPLUS, which is scheduled to replace CPAN.pm in the 5.10 core, has uninstall functionality.

    [root@ocicat root]# perl -MCPANPLUS -e shell
    CPANPLUS::Shell::Default -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v0.03)
    *** Please report bugs to <cpanplusbugs@lists.sourceforge.net>.
    *** Using CPANPLUS::Backend v0.042. ReadLine support enabled.

    CPAN Terminal> u File::ReadBackwards
    Checking if source files are up to date
    Retrieving /root/.cpanplus/mailrc.2.04.stored
    Retrieving /root/.cpanplus/dslip.2.04.stored
    Retrieving /root/.cpanplus/packages.2.04.stored
    Uninstalling: File::ReadBackwards
    unlinking /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/File/ReadBack wards.pm
    unlinking /usr/local/man/man3/File::ReadBackwards.3
    unlinking /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/au to/File/ReadBackwards/.packlist
    Uninstalled File::ReadBackwards successfully
    All modules uninstalled successfully
    CPAN Terminal>
    Exiting CPANPLUS shell
    [root@ocicat root]#

    --
    --- Fox