Re: Utility to install a perl module via apt with cpan fallback
Jeremiah:
I think the intent of this one isn't to create the perl .deb package;
it's simply to select the appropriate .deb package if it already
exists in the mirrors, and simply fall back (as in the subject) to
CPAN-style installation.
This is more for users than prospective developers.
But I think it perhaps warrants some work to make a machine that would
fetch CPAN modules and try to run dh-make-perl to construct .deb
packages from them. We could perhaps pick the top rated modules and
try to turn those into packages; for the ones that fail, it would flag
which ones might be more difficult to do.
Just some thinking out loud.
Cheers,
Jon
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Jeremiah Foster
<jeremiah@jeremiahfoster.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 9, 2009, at 9:50 PM, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
>
>> -=| Gabor Szabo, Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 05:04:47PM +0200 |=-
>>>
>>> IMHO this should be a plugin to CPAN and CPANPLUS
>>>
>
> CPANPLUS attempts to do this with CPANPLUS-Dist-Deb,
> http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/CPANPLUS-Dist-Deb . Jos (the creator of
> CPANPLUS) has spoken to me several times about doing more with this module,
> so I am sure he would welcome patches.
>
>>> so they can revert to use the .deb package if it is available.
>>
>> Sounds nice indeed. This is off my area of expectise, however, so I'll
>> leave the implementation to someone that speaks CPAN natively :)
>>
>> Our version of cpan2deb seems ready in trunk. Once that is uploaded,
>> CPAN gurus can plug it in CPAN*.
>
> All this stuff is the kind of thing I was talking about last year! Then
> everyone was like, "I don't know, do we want CPAN or CPANPLUS to be able to
> create debs automatically?" Now everyone is like, "w00t! Automated deb
> creation!" :^)
>
> Jeremiah
>
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