Re: Installing add-on Perl modules?

[Christopher McCrory <chrismcc pricegrabber com>]

Hello...


On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 02:34, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Garrick Staples wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 06:29:57PM -0400, Matthew Saltzman alleged:
> > > What's the best way to install add-on Perl modules in an RPM-based system
> > > like RHEL?  The modules I'm interested in don't seemto be packaged in
> > > Taroon.  They are some of the ones needed by cvsweb: IPC::Run,
> > > MIME::Types, and String::Ediff.
> > >
> > > Is there something that will make RPMs out of modules from PAN
> > > automatically?
> >
> > You want cpan2rpm: http://perl.arix.com/cpan2rpm/
> >
> > It makes very clean rpms from any CPAN module.
> 
> That does sound like just the thing.  Unfortunately, I couldn't get it to
> work for me.  It seems not to play well with Michael Fratoni's
> rpmenvironment.  On the other hand, there is the Web interface at
> http://perl.arix.com/cpan2rpm/.  That seems to work fine, except that it
> builds an IPC::Run rpm that requires Win32::Process and Win32API::File.
> The former doesn't seem to exist at all, and cpan2rpm couldn't build an
> rpm of the latter no matter what I did.
> 

I ran into something similar

grep perl ~/.rpmmacros
%__perl_requires /home/chrismcc/bin/perl.req

diff -u /usr/lib/rpm/ /home/chrismcc/bin/perl.req

<snip>
+      next if $module eq 'Mac::BuildTools';
+      next if $module eq 'Mac::InternetConfig';
+      next if $module eq 'Authen::NTLM';
+      next if $module eq 'HTTP::GHTTP';
+      next if $module eq 'Win32';
+      next if $module eq 'MQClient::MQSeries';
+      next if $module eq 'MQSeries';
<snip>



> Thanks to Rainer Traut's post, I did find the rpms I needed at Dag's.  And
> IPC::Run doesn't have any Windows dependencies.
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