Re: CPAN Module RPMs

Dave Cross wrote: > > I've just started to dabble with packaging RPMs from CPAN modules > and making them available for download (see > http://rpm.mag-sol.com/). This had brought up a number of questions > that people on this list would probably be best placed to answer. > > 1/ Currently I've been using cpan2rpm to build the RPMs. Are there > any better tools out there? What do you use to create RPMs from > CPAN distributions? Try cpanspec (it's in Extras). I don't use it myself but I know a lot of packages in Extras were built starting from a cpanspec package.

> 2/ Are there any good tools for building web pages from RPMs. I've > played with rpm2html but I don't want to my web pages to look like > it's still 1998. Something that interfaces with the Template > Toolkit would be great, and I'd be happy to write that if it > doesn't already exist. How about repoview, which is used by Fedpra Extras, e.g.: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/5/i386/repodata/

> 3/ I assume there are standards that define how CPAN modules should > be packaged for use with Fedora (I'm largely targeting Fedora - if > the RPMs work with other distributions then that's a bonus). Are > they documented somewhere? Using cpanspec will give you a good starting point as I believe it's based on the Fedora perl package template. The packages should meet the general packaging guidelines (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines) and some tips for perl packages in particular can be found at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Perl